BSG.CS.01591 — Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, SW, Wool Sack, 1675-1800

Found in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, 35mm.

(11)73 / ..5 scratched // privy mark (woolsack incorporated) S W to sides

Cloth worker's seal with an interesting privy mark that incorporates a woolsack or madderbag.

See Fig.32, No.239, 'clothiers'/weavers'/searchers' seals with privy marks' p.183, Geoff Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum which appears to be a match - "(scratched) (5)73 / 23.3 / (017) // privy mark with woolsack or madderbag on stem, S W to sides ... Tis could be a seal for a weaver, a clothier or a dyer. (?)Late seventeenth- / eighteenth-century."