cloth-seal
- Museum number
- S.183
- Description
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Cloth-mark; lead; four part alnage/subsidy seal; (1): plain; (2): heads of William and Mary, crude cartouche of wavy line and pellets around; (3): crown over thistle, number to right, border of incuse rays, around usual stamp of beading; (4): plain.
- Production date
- 1689-1694
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17 millimetres (disc three)
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Diameter: 18 millimetres (disc two)
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Diameter: 14 millimetres (discs one and four)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Compare with S.178
Compare with 1987,0607.9
Compare with S.24
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a stamp similar to that on the second disc appears on a seal in the Cuming Museum (acc. no. C13973, found at London Bridge in 1846). Compare also No. 134 (acc. no. S 178), which has a Charles II type head.
(Egan 1994)
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- S.183