Code: 12893
This is a nice copper-alloy merchant's fob seal, dating to the late 16th - mid-17th century. It is decorated with a simple trefoil openwork handle of a chessman-type design. The device depicts a three masted sailing ship/galleon. It is a metal detector find from Suffolk, as excavated.
OBJECT: Fob Seal
CULTURE: Tudor/Jacobean
DATE: c. 1580 - 1640 AD
MATERIAL: Copper-alloy
SIZE: 27mm x 15mm
WEIGHT: 4.60 grams
PROVENANCE: Ex. Private Collection, Norfolk, United Kingdom, originally found in Suffolk
