cloth-seal
- Museum number
- 1992,0203.5
- Description
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Cloth-mark, seal for bay; lead; Colchester Dutch immigrant community; two rivets; (1): missing; (2): inscription, voided sexfoil, three sexfoils, date and inscription; textile imprint.
- Production date
- 1571-1600
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 41 millimetres (disc two)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Compare Baart et al. 1977, 118 no. 70, and 1983, fig. 17,1, and Janssen et al. 1983, no. 89 for similar seals found in Amsterdam and s'Hertogenbosch (Netherlands). The late sixteenth-century date attributed to the former is probably correct (though it may have been based on the year given on the stamp, which is not when it was issued - see introduction to Colchester, above).
(Egan 1994)
- Location
- On display (G46/dc15)
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1992,0203.5