BSG.CS.01611 — Cloth Seal, French, Douai

Found near Krnov, Czech Republic, 20mm.

(DOVAI between horizontal lines, scrolling above and below) // stylised palm tree

For a more complete example see BSG.CS.00107.

See No.297, Fig.39, Geoff Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, Occasional Paper 93. "Several similar seals have been found at London and there is one from Paisley in Scotland (Paisley Museum collection). ... Cloths were sealed at Douai from at least the mid-fourteenth century ... The town produced camlets in the early-modern period, to which the present seal can tentatively be attributed."