Stamping block for Exeter Sail Cloth
This stamp was used to mark bales of sail cloth before they left the port in Exeter. The stamp was probably a mark of quality and advertising, but little is now known about this company.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1894/2/21
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- stamping block for Exeter Sail Cloth
- Simple Name
- stamp
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750); Georgian (1714-1837)
