Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Leeds, Robert Elam
Cloth Seal, Clothier's* Seal, Leeds, Robert Elam, Image & Found by Huckle Berry.
Found in the Lake Champlain valley, U.S.A., ?mm.
Scratched numbers // ROBERT / ELAM
Identified by Paul Cannon, "I believe this seal reads ‘ROBERT / ELAM’. One possible candidate is the Robert Elam who is listed as working in Leeds as a mercer, woollen draper & hosier in 1781 see p222, Bailey's Northern Directory
*Clothier term used for convenience - we see from above he was, more specifically, "a mercer, woollen draper & hosier".
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