BSG.CS.01766 — Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Tiverton, Samuel Foote

Purchased from Amsterdam, 21mm.

24 // foot privy mark S-F

A Tiverton cloth seal of Samuel Foote (trading from c 1660 to 1690).

Evans Type 1.1.1.* (but with 24 instead of 22). Other examples of this seal with 22 are recorded as Nos.1 to 4, Fig.1 p.394, Maunder, P., Tiverton Cloth: The Story of the Town's Woollen Trade 1475 - 1815.

*A helpful classification system for these seals, devised by Jane Evans, can be found as an appendix to Peter Maunder’s comprehensive history of the Tiverton cloth trade.

This and other Tiverton seals were taken from Michel Royer's Euro-Plombs.

The fullest collection of Tiverton cloth seals (about thirty) is on permanent display in Tiverton Museum.