cloth-seal
- Museum number
- S.181
- Description
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Cloth-mark; lead; (1): plain; (2): head of Charles II to right with legend; (3): missing; (4) missing, star on rivet, inscribed.
- Production date
- 1660-1685
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17 millimetres (discs one and two)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A more complete parallel has a crown-over-rose and 6 on the third disc. Closing stamps for other counties are also known on seals of this kind. Compare Nos. 129ff. for the first stamp.
Large-sized seals from the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are known for several of the weaving towns of north Essex. Colchester, the most important of these centres for the production of the `new draperies`, which were originally devised by the Dutch immigrants, is also by far the most extensively represented by seals in the collection.
See Nos. 201-2 for further, incmplete seals in the same style, and probably from the north Essex/south Suffolk manufacturing area, wich also comprised Bocking, Braintree, Coggeshall, Dedham, Halstead, Sudbury and Witham (seals are known for all these towns exept Dedham and Witham).
(Egan 1994)
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- S.181