£100 - £200
East Indiaman Colebrook Cape of Good Hope 1778 Two lead bag or cloth seals of The East India Company and two part seals (back section only). The largest 3.8cm diameter Lead cloth or 'bag seal' (from its shape) with merchant's mark of the East India Company. The design on the reverse shows a St George cross with the English shield of arms (the three lions of England diagonally impaled with the three fleurs de lys of France) in the upper left quadrant. On the front the letters VEIC are set within a heart shape with the number 4 above. These seals were authenticating merchants marks on bolts or bales of cloth, being folded and clamped round a visible outer edge.
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