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Lead Seals.
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| Lead seals such as cloth seals and bale seals
were widely used in Europe between the 13th and 19th centuries as a means
of identification and as a component of regulation and quality control.
Cloth seals appear to be the most thoroughly documented type of seal. Cloth
seals were typically two disc seals joined by a connecting strip. These
were intended to be folded around each side of a textile and stamped closed,
in a manner similar to that in which coins were stamped. Bale seals such were single disc seals, rather than two disc seals, and were also used to identify textiles, as well as parcels and bales of trade goods. The obverse would typically display a city's arms, and the reverse would record data such as the length or width of fabric or the weight of a parcel. |
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