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p.7 While the BSG.CS.00001, Strasbourg seal is heavier than any in the British Museum, a cloth seal from Hamburg dwarfs this at 63mm & 160g. - p.27-28, Ansorge,J., 2009, Die Ausgrabungen fur das Stralsunder OZEANEUM - Einblicke in den Haf eneiner Hansestadt.
p.57 - Lion is rampant not passant, see BSG.CS.00229
p.91 - BSG.CS.00155 This may or may not be from a Canterbury seal. This disc appears on other Commonwealth alnage seals, see BSG.CS.01406 a Worcester Commonwealth alnage seal.
p.102 - Northampton - This is more probably a Norwich seal, see BSG.CS.01459 & BSG.CS.01904, which clearly shows the lettering around the date to be NORIM or NORON rather than NORAM.
p.138 - Salisbury, Wiltshire, - "58- above arms of Salisbury, 58- above, WILT.S below" should be "58- above arms of Salisbury, WILT.S below" See BSG.CS.01854 for another example.
p.143 - Yorkshire - MOL 78.227/15 - "William Power was an alnager for stockings in Yorkshire from 1618 to 1624." It should be added to this that while no definite connection can be made with the WP initials shown between the K & C, dating to the first part of the 17th century is correct for this type of seal.
p.194 - London Clothworkers’ Company Arms "An even better example of the arms of the Clothworkers’ Guild can be seen on MOL 79.428/1, shown below in the ‘Clothiers’ section." 79.428/1 should read 79.428/2.
p.268 - MOL 79.428/4 Clothier’s Seal, John Draper, Image by S.F. Elton, Unknown find spot, 49mm, 68.3g. MOL 79.428/4 should read MOL 79.428/2.
p.298 - Augsburg, OX, - "No speculative lions have so far been found." But see BSG.CS.01162, Cloth Seal, German, Ulm, Lion.
p.307 - "BSG.CS.00518 & MOL 90.342/1 are examples of a rare variety with a lion rampant on a crested shield on one side and GROS / HART / ANS / ? on the other." These seals are now known to be from the German municipality of Großhartmannsdorf. See BSG.CS.00518 and BSG.CS.00520
p.308 - "Another example with a more complete rendition of the ..." This fault was only discovered in 2021 and the author cannot remember his original intention!
ADDENDUM:-
p.27 Cloth Seal Matrices - BSG.CS.01096 also recorded as [url=SOM-A3D47E]PAS SOM-A3D47E[/url]. See also PAS NFAHG-C241B0, PAS YORYM-EFCDF3 and PAS HESH-F166B5 which could indicate a die matrix specifically for use on wax cloth seals. John Cherry confirms that similar seals were used by cloth alnagers (possibly Richard More), see PAS LIN-54AAAD, PAS LVPL-030087 and PAS BH-B7E198. For a possible privy marked cloth worker's personal seal die matrix see BSG.CS.01607
p.246 Searcher’s Seal, PAS NLM-4F984C IOSEPH / NECKER should read IOSEPH / ARCHER (with thanks to Paul Cannon) The following is taken from the orders books for Wakefield District:
“Ordered that the several persons following be appointed and sworn Narrow Cloth Searchers for the year ensuing for the several salaries and at the several mills and places hereafter mentioned (that is to say): Pontefract 23 April 1759, Joseph Archer: Hobson’s Battys, Oxsprings, dyers, Hunshelf: £16.0”.
Joseph Archer is one of twenty nine narrow cloth searchers recorded for that year.
See PAS LIN-57C813 for searcher's seal for Richard Grice and PAS SUR-AD5735 for another for James Kershaw.
p.351 Appendix 2: Types of Cloth, Long ell: a kind of perpetuana - "measuring twenty-four yards long by thirty-one inches wide, and weighing twelve pounds apiece, long ells (or sandfords as they were sometimes called - a variety of serge) had historically been the speciality of the Ashburton area." [Maunder, P., 2018, p.327] Towards the end of the 18th century the East India Company traded large quantities of this cloth to China in exchange for tea.
p.373 List of Alnagers Known by their Initials - RV see BSG.CS.01406
p.384 Distinctive Identification Features on Cloth Seals - Keys - Avignon, Comines-Warneton, Reichenbach im Vogtland, Salzwedel, Trier, Worms; (Keys crossed) - Lubań, Poland; Babimost, Poland; Vatican City State; Weil der Stadt, Germany.
p.384 Fleur-de-Lis, Ubiquitous – especially on French and Low Countries seals and was part of England’s arms pre 1800. The fleur-de-lis has not been found on any English seals, other than in the English arms, prior to the badge and emblems used under the Stuarts.
