Cloth Seal, Alnage, County Portcullis, Counterfeit

Cloth Seal, Counterfeit County Alnage Portcullis Seal, Image & Found by Stomper2892.
Found in the Devizes region.

A complete two disk seal showing a crude portcullis with a cross scratched deeply on it. The riveted side is blank.

See:- PROVENANCED LEADEN CLOTH SEALS by GEOFFREY EGAN, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaeology, University College, University of London. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987, "Crown-over-Portcullis Series of County Seals. This group is one of the largest recorded. The basic design is: crown over chained portcullis (usually with a lattice of 3X3 squares) ... Further seals have various stamps for which the engraving of the portcullis was crudely-executed. None of these stamps appears to have an edge legend. ... The crudeness of the engraving for these stamps contrasts markedly with that for the ones which do include legends and seems inconsistent with die production under the authority of the Mint. These present seals may be contemporary counterfeits, used to avoid the quality control procedures, and (perhaps more importantly) the subsidy and alnage payments."

Probably therefore a counterfeit county alnage seal.