BSG.CS.01663 — Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Initialled, E

Found on Thames foreshore, ?mm.

47 1/2 / E

The scratched number is almost certainly the length of the cloth in yards.

The E could be the owner, manufacturer, supplier, the official who measured or approved the cloth, or even a quality mark.

From Egan, Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, "incuse numbers are generally found on two disc seals of eighteenth-/nineteenth-century date - i.e. post-alnage."