Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's One-Part Seal, GM
Cloth Seal, Dye Seal, Dyer's One-Part Seal, GM, 1575~1700, Image & Found by Fran Sibthorpe.
Found on the Thames foreshore, 12mm.
G(I?)M monogram // blank
Dyers one-part (bulla type) seal with G above M joined vertically (possibly representing GIM. Very similar to those shown in Fig.37 in Geoff Egans 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' which he categorises as a dyer's one part seals found ‘in some numbers ... from Trig Stairs to London Bridge’. He dates them from the late 16th to 17th centuries.
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