BSG.CS.01953 — Cloth Seal, Clothier's* Seal, Leeds, Robert Elam

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".