Lead cloth seals found at Jamestown
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Cathrine Davis discusses her work with the lead cloth seals that have been excavated at Jamestown. Cloth seals were widely used in the 17th century as a means of identifying the quality of cloth. They were used much like clothing tags today, which tell us manufacturing details about our apparel.
The cloth seal diagrams used in this video are courtesy of Cathrine Davis. For more information about cloth seals please visit our webpage historicjamestowne.org/collec...
We are lucky to have these knowledgeable experts collecting and preserving these priceless objects
We DEFINITELY need more update videos! I absolutely LOVE getting notifications from this channel!
It's cool AMERICAN history, but it's kinda boring how they deliver the information!!!
Awesome 👍
These clips are increasingly addictive lol every time one pops up in my feed I HAVE to stop whatever I'm doing and check it out like, immediately. 👍
I enjoy tangible history! Every bit adds to the complete puzzle. Thank you all for your work and dedication to history.
Great! Keep the updates coming!
Thank you all for sharing these historical Virginia relics.
I have recovered a few lead seals metal detecting Northern Virginia and Piedmont region.
Truly fascinating stuff. Thank you Cathrine!
I’ve been watching metal detector videos for a long time and they find bale seals all the time, I just never knew what they were for exactly. Thanks for that! Enjoy finding info on the rest. Send more videos. Rox
i had a detector in 1977 one of the best that only found coins and at that time no one else had one and i found buckets of coins rings ect
Check out the Channel, man. This is LITERALLY what they do. Digging around in the oldest European settlement in North America, Jamestown, THE place where the Pocahontas story originated, and they've found TONS of unique and priceless historical artifacts going back to the early 1600's-1610's.
Virtually EVERY video on their channel is content just like this. It's really a treasure trove of archeological discovery, particularly in regards to the earliest American Colonial history. 👍
Very interesting! Good luck with your career!
That was very interesting information
Thank you
@Jamestown Rediscovery So these are basically tags for taxes and law purposes? Would make a lot of sense to me. Fascinating! Please keep up all of the cool work and preservation going on there! What a lucky job to have!
Thank you for capturing this information. It is refreshing to see how such a clue can generate so much thought. I enjoyed every moment.
Interesting. Thank you!
Thanks for the update.
Your work and area of expertise is very interesting! Keep sharing your finds! Thank you.
Great work. I appreciated this update. So interesting! Thank you.
Thnx 😊
Very similar to modern-day security tags you find a clothing stores.
I used to buy large lots of uncleaned Roman coins to clean, research and then resell. I got one coin that was very thin and made of silver. It was heavily embossed so at first I thought it might be a seal, but a coin dealer immediately recognized it as an Islamic coin of the early 1700's. How it got mixed in with Roman coins from the turn of the century is a mystery.
Love these videos. Wouldn't much of the lead be recycled for amunation?
Could these seals be opened and put on cloth of lesser value, or were they made to break when forced open. Did I understand correctly that these metal seals would be on individual garments as well as bolts of fabric? So, dressmakers, embroiderers, etc., used them as a sort of guarantee that the garment came from the source that the seller claimed? Thank you for this interesting video. I am always interested to see how our predecessors handled every day life -- and these "labels" are a surprise to me. :)
That's a really good question about fraud, I'll share your questions with Cathrine and try to get back to you.
yelloworangered I would assume they used lead as it fractures with tampering like tin does. Unless you have the original heated press (unsure the terms) to stamp the hot lead it would be hard to fake much the same way wax seals and the sealer show tampering. It either fits the original mould or it don’t. Either way you can tell if it is legit. Tin is more valuable and more useful so lead is used over tin. Just a bit of metallurgy I know.
BTW bend tin and you can hear it cry I was always told. The metal fractures easily despite being very very soft. Lead does this too but in a different audio range I would assume.
Another interesting and somewhat related note is the ancient Jewish custom (I am not Jewish btw) was to embroider hems in family, clan and then tribal patterns to show status, authority, etc. When this is torn from a piece of dressing it shows removal from those groups.
Wax seals and embossed documents for legal matters are similar in most respects along these lines and serve similar purpose.
All of these seal types actually can be defeated buy it is a highly skilled and specialized art usually only at governmental levels such as the old reading of mail in secret rooms in some major post offices of years past.
And I should note mostly in old world Europe.
I’d be interested in seeing what the sealer looks like as well. Yes I know, I imagine VERY rare today.
@@AldoSchmedack You might be interested to hear that aluminum was for a brief time a valuable and rare metal -- beginning of the 20th century -- "valuable" jewelry was made of aluminium. Then a cheap method was developed and the prestige plummeted. DItto linoleum, which was used on the main staircase of the Titanic, then when production became cheap, relegated to kitchen floors everywhere. :)
Hello Catherine I have a lead seal I discovered recently I was wondering if you could help me idendity it. Is there a way I could contact (email) you and send you some photos please? Thanks
A thorough knowledge of heraldry would seem to be key in this field of study.
I watch a show called Curse of Oak Island and they found a lead seal they aren't certain where/who it came from and I was wondering if you took a look at it if you might be able to tell company/country and if you don't know, if you might have some way/one who might - ruclips.net/video/s6fkrP6goRo/видео.html - Clearest image of it on the video is at 4:01 - I thought it was East India Trading Company, but the I and the E look to be reversed for that
Look what Y'all have done to poor Harry... You should understand by now how much harm this Disney story has done!
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