Wire or Metalwork Seal, Willem Momma Cauldron Seal

Wire or Metalwork Seal, Willem Momma Cauldron Seal, Image & Found by Redgy Dewulf.
Found in maritime Flanders.

Eagle displayed // cauldron, WILLEM.MOMMA. around

A metal work seal for Willem Momma, "Willem (or Welam) Momma , born around 1601, probably in Aachen , died 1681 in Nyköping , was a Swedish-German businessman.
Willem Momma was the son of the copper master in Aachen Wilhelm Momma. As a young man he moved from Aachen to Amsterdam where he became a merchant. Momma never became a Dutch citizen and already in 1621 when he visited Sweden had plans to build a brass mill by the Mölndalsån to settle there.
However, the project never came to fruition, and the next time Willem Momma has contact with Sweden was in 1640, when he had plans to take over Vällinge brass mill from the then owner Arent Toppengiesser.
This contract did not materialize either, but he signed an agreement to buy half of all the bundle iron that was manufactured in Torshälla.
During the year he visited Nyköping, where he signed an agreement with Niclas Notman through which he became involved in the stay from the ironworks in Skeppsta . He also lent money to Nicla's brother Johan Notman and thereby succeeded in becoming a partner in the mills in Morpa, Råby-Rönö parish and Harg in Helgona parish.
Momma seems to have been related to the Notman brothers, who called him cousin, as well as to Nyköping's then mayor Paul Simons. In 1644 he sent his younger brother Abraham to Nyköping and in 1645 he moved there himself. Together with Matthias Römer, he built a brass mill in Nyköping in 1646 . After a dispute, Momma soon became the sole owner of the brass mill.
Pretty soon, Momma came to completely take over Skeppsta from Niclas Notman, and in 1647 he became a partner in Färna mill , where in 1650 he left the care of his brother Abraham.
Together with the brothers Abraham and Jacob , Willem Momma was given the privilege in 1654 to build foundries. He succeeded in becoming the owner of both Morpa and Harg's mills and Hulta mills in Gåsinge-Dillnäs parish . However, Momma put her main interest in the brass mill, which grew into one of the foremost in the country. During the city fire in Nyköping in 1665, however, the entire mill was destroyed. In the years after the fire, Momma tried to move parts of the brass production to Harg's mill.
Sweden's entry into the Franco-Dutch war posed problems for Momma as the war between the Netherlands and Sweden made it difficult to establish contacts with his business associates in the Netherlands. It also led to conflicts between the brothers over ownership of the estate complex, and Willem, who had mortgaged their common property, was now forced to replace the brothers, and was forced to borrow from his son-in-law David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and left the brass mill to him in 1677. The disputes with the brothers were still ongoing when Willem Momma died."

the above would suggest that, although Momma was born in Aachen, Germany, his factories were in Sweden.

See BSG.OS.00023 for another example.