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LOT 1795
Tudor Lead Tax Seal
16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (21 grams, 40 mm).
Discoid in plan with low-relief design of a crown above a sun, fleur-de-lis and rose, within ropework roundel, surrounding legend beginning 'SVB[SIDII PANNORVM]' [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic, believed to have been recovered from the Thames foreshore.
Literature
Cf. Stuart F. Elton, Cloth Seals. An illustrated reference guide to the identification of lead seals attached to cloth, Oxford, 2017, p.221, from the Museum of London collection, MOL 92.27/7, for a very similar seal; see also the Southampton seal-matrix of this design, in Elton, p.28 [= PAS database SUR-AB43CB].
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