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Russian Flax/Hemp Bale Seals
Riga Crossed Keys
Riga
obtains its flax chiefly from White Russia and Marienburg in Livonia.
Riga crossed keys flax seals are dated from the early 18th to mid 19th
century when the keys had round bow rings.
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Russian Flax Bale Seals
Crossed Keys Types from Baltic Port Riga.
Flax
seals from Riga bear the crossed keys of the city arms.
Some of these seals may also be St Petersburg
.. see note (SPB)
Russian flax bale seals are the "bulla" type, a disc with
a tunnel
from side to side through which a string or wire is
passed.
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** Because we have not physically seen the seals from "Museums & Other Sites"
we can not vouch for their 100% accuracy.
The soft lead are easily distorted which makes the Cyrillic alphabet very
difficult to read and mistakes are common.
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Lead Flax Bale Seals from
the Baltic City Port of Riga.
On occasions Riga inspected flax and hemp were shipped
via Konigsberg.
The important parts of a key for us are the bow and the bit.
We are looking for a cross + between the bits and a grading
number 1, 2 or 3 between the bows.
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Deciphering
Riga Cross Keys
Seals .. example |
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obverse
Crossed
Keys with
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The
crossed keys are the Arms of the City of Riga, but also
of other cities.
To be a Riga seal there must be a
+ between
the bits, at the top,
and
a number 1, 2 or 3 between
the bows at the bottom to indicate the grading.
(A
cross in the form of a X may indicate another city)
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The reverse of a Riga seal is usually blank.
We do have
a couple of examples of X types
with a 4, (which could be 4 band quality hemp)
and Pst which could suggest St.
Petersburg for the X seals.
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The City Arms are used on their own for Driebandt (Threeband) flax in
Memel and this could well be the case for Riga and
other Baltic States ports.
Notes:-
variations are numerous.
From the late 18th Century
Riga had a method of grading flax for sale on the world markets which, unfortunately, was committed to paper,
and not
put on the seals. Project member Sebastian Graham located
reports in the Belfast Linen Trade Circular for 1863 which gave the grades of flax available from
Riga to the UK for that time. In order of quality and price, WFPHD
(White Fine Picked,Yellow Threeband flax), WFPK (White Fine Picked Crown flax), HFPK (Yellow Fine
Picked Crown flax) FPK (Fine Picked Crown flax), PK (Picked Crown flax
whilst a bundle from the port of Koenigsberg was FWPCM (Fine White Picked Crown
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The letter on the right of the group was called the
base letter to which
other letters were added at the front to further describe the flax.
The code for Riga grades and types which was also
used at some other ports
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RUSSIAN FLAXES RELATIVE VALUE .. From
Yarns & Fabrics by Fred Bradbury 1920 |
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Market |
Base Mark |
Quality,
Mark and Relative Value to the Base Mark |
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RIGA |
K |
PK |
SPK |
ZK |
R |
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Crown
Flaxes |
Krown
base £ |
Picked
Krown
+£3 |
Superior
Picked Krown
+£7 |
Zinc Krown
+£10 |
Rakitzer
+£13/10 |
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2 |
HOFF |
HD |
PHD |
FHD |
SFHD |
XHDX |
XRX |
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Crown
Flaxes |
Hoff's
Threeband
base £ |
Picked Hoff's
Threeband
+£3 |
Fine Hoff's
Threeband
+£6 |
Superior Fine Hoff's
Threeband
+£9 |
Extra Hoff's
Threeband
+£12 |
Extra
Rakitzer
+£16 |
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3 |
PERNAU |
D |
LOD |
OD |
D |
HD |
R |
G |
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Crown
Flaxes |
Driebandt Threeband
base £ |
Livonia Ordinary
Driebandt
minus £6 |
Ordinary Driebandt
minus £3 |
Driebandt Threeband
base £ |
Hoff's
Threeband
+£4 |
Rakitzer
+£8 |
Best
+£11 |
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3 = Threeband
4 = Fourband is
superior to 3-band , both
exported to England from Libau & Memel.
B = Badstuben, a type of
Threeband
(Drujaner & Coupland flax)
BG = Badstuben Geschnitten,
Badstuben Cut
(as above)
CM = Crown Marienburg.
CR = Courland Rakitzer was
not as good as the other Rakitzers
CPH =
Crukken Pass Hemp .. preferred types are from Russia and
Poland
D = Driebandt,
Threeband. The
City Arms used alone for Threeband flax in
Memel.
DC =
Druana Crown from Tilsit
DD = Drujaner Dreibandt,
Drujaner Threeband .
DR = Druana (Drujaner) Rakitzer,
High Quality White Russian .
DRD = Drujaner Risten Dreibandt,
Drujaner Bundle Threeband was fine in fibre, moderately long, clean,
soft, white, silver coloured and fit for spinning the finest yarns.
DW = Dreibandt Wrack,
Threeband Brack
F = Fein, Fine
FHD = Fein Hoff's Driebandt, Fine Hoff's Threeband;
FPHD = Fein Puik
Hoff's Driebandt, Fine Picked Threeband. (Portuguese)
FPK = Fein Puik Kron, Fine Picked Crown.
FPSD = Fein Puik
Slansky Driebandt, Fine Picked Slanitz Threeband, Fine Pink
Slansky
threeband.
FWPCM = Fine White Picked Crown Marienburg flax from the port of Koenigsberg.
G. German
G
= BEST from Pernau
G = Geschnitten, cut rejected crown.
G = Grau, Grey.
GRD = Geschnitten Risten Dreibandt, cut bundle threeband.
GW = Giligen Brack, Low Grade Threeband.
H = Hell, Heel, Light, Yellow.
H = Heide, TOW when
used as the base letter .
HD = Hoffdreibandt,
Hoff's Threeband
(English) from Livonia.
HFPK (Hoff) Yellow Fine Picked Crown flax.
K
= KPOHЪ (Kron) Crown is high quality long
strong filament flax. Better grades are PK, FPK &
ZK.
KPC =
Konigsberg Podolia Crown from Tilsit
KRK = Kourland Rakitzer Kron, High Quality Courland Rakitzer Crown.
LC = Lithuanian
Czukken hemp
is as Rein Hemp but less oily and soft.
LD = Leiden Dreibandt,
Lieden Threeband.
LD = Lithuanian
Dreibandt, Lithuanian Threeband.
LD = Livonian
Dreibandt, Lindlandischan Threeband from Livonia
LH = Livonian
Hoffdreibandt, Livonian Threeband Hoff from Livonia
LOD = Livonian Ordinary Driebandt,
Threeband.
LR = Lithuanian
Rakitzer, High Quality Lithuanian flax
but not as good as the other
Rakitzers
LRK = Lithuanian
Rakitzer Kron, High Quality Lithuanian Krown flax
LS =
Lithuanian Slanitz .. dew retted via Riga .. also called
Wellish Slanitz or Wiasma Slanitz
M = Marienburg or
Marienburg Clean, High grade Crown,
a
source of best quality Livonian flax
for Riga.
MБ possibly Marienburg Badstube,
a second grade flax from Riga .
MG = Marienburg Geschnitten, Second Quality Marienburg.
MR = Marienburg Rakitzer = equivalent quality to
Rein Hemp, Rhine Hemp
MRC = MC = Mohilow Russian Czukken hemp
MRD = Marienburg Risten Dreibandt, Marienburg Bundle Threeband.
NB = Notabene is another name for Paternoster
NC =
Newstadt Crown from Memel
NP = Paternoster
is also Badstuben Cut (Sent to Portugal)
O = OTБOPHЬII (OTBORNI) is Select
grade
OC =
Oberland Crown from Tilsit
OD = Ordinary Driebandt, Threeband.
OH = OUTSHOT is short second sort hemp.
P = PICKED, Puik (Pink)
PD = Puik Driebandt, Picked Threeband, pink threeband.
PH = Puik Heide, PIicked Tow flax
PH = PASS HEMP .. usually from Lithuania or Samogitia.
PHD = Puik Hoff's Driebandt, Picked Threeband. (French) Pink
Threeband from
Livonia.
PK. Pass Krown (flax) is very short but clean and free of woody particles.
PK = Picked Krown (Pink Kron) flax.
PLD = Puik Livonian Dreibandt, Picked Linlandischan Threeband
.. Pink Dreibandt from Livonia.
PSD = Puik Slansky Driebandt, Picked Slanitz Threeband, pink
Slansky threeband
PW = Puik Wrack, Picked Brack, Pink Wrack
flax
PZ (ПЗ) is possibly ПEH ЗAБPAKЪ
lowest quality hemp codilla.
R (chista = clean) from
Hemp seal of
1733
R = Risten, bundles
R = Rakitzer
R = Risten, Bundle.
RC = MRC = Mohilow
Russian Czukken hemp
RG = Rakitzer Geschnitten, lowest grade of
Crown
Cut
Rakitzer.
RH (MR) Rein (Rhine) Hemp is
the longest best hemp, oily, strong and free of
Codilla
and woody particles ..
sometimes listed as MR = Marienburg Rakitzer
RSC = Russian
Slanitz Crown from Memel
S. Select
is soft, silk-like flax in 3 grades
S. Spinning
grade
S. Superior
grade
S = Sanft, Sweet, Superior
SD = Slansky Driebandt, Slanitz Threeband.
(
SFHD = Superior Fine Hoff's Threeband.
S G = cut
SH = Slansky Heide, Slanitz Tow
SPK =
Superior Picked Krown
TR = Thiesenhausen Rakitzer, a type of High Quality Lithuanian flax
grown on the estate of Count
Thiesenhausen was of long harle, strong, even, clean, white
and soft.
W = Weiss, White
.. is made up in bundles of 12, 9 and 6 heads called bobbins.
W = Wrack (Brack) Bracked flax
WC = Wilna Crown from Memel
WFPHD
White Fine Picked, Yellow (Hoff) Threeband flax
WFPK White Fine Picked Crown
flax
WK = Wilma Krown on reverse
of seals replacing NP
WS = Wellish Slanitz or Wiasma Slanitz
XHDX = Extra Hoff's Threeband flax
XRX = Extra Rakitzer flax
ZABR,
ZABRACK, (ЗAБP, ЗAБPAKЪ)
lowest quality hemp
ZK = Zinc
Crown
(Zins Kron) flax |
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Let's start with seals that are not
Riga
DON'T
BE FOOLED BY LEAD TRADING TOKENS
and OTHER CROSSED KEYS CITY ARMS
SEALS
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This is a lead trading
token not a Riga Flax seal -- On a Riga seal the key wards
(the tangs) face in opposite directions, one clockwise and one
anti-clockwise .. but in this token both wards face clockwise .. On
Riga seals their is a cross + between the rings but here there is a
crescent shaped symbols C on the token which are the bases of ship
anchors .. a Christian symbol stating that their religion is
anchored in Jesus Christ .. similarly there is a Christian fish or
key symbol on the reverse .. the Cyrillic letters appear to be ПС
(PS) and... Riga flax seals are always blank on the reverse ..
whichever city this is.. it is not Riga and it is not a seal.
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From
Carnforth, Lancashire
and Coimbra, Portugal
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German Crossed Key and Sword No. 3 Grade Flax
Seals - not Riga |
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Cross
Keys at
St
Peter's Church
Nottingham.
UK |
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A cloth seal from Leiden
City
in Holland. The keys
are
on a shield with no
numbers.
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Regensburg
City
Arms
Germany |
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Leiden City Arms |
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Vatican
City Arms |
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Two Crossed Keys seals which, if not from
the City of Leiden in the Netherlands, they have
the Tiara
coats of arms of the Holy See and Vatican City State. Found at
Oudenaarde
(Flanders) in Belgium. These seals do not
have the Riga cross + or the numbers 1,2 3 flax
grades... they have a crown
or Tiara coat of arms and the letters H A G.
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keys cloth seals but from Leiden in 1661 - definitely not Riga
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This
1573 Silver Coin from Riga illustrates
what
is needed for an item to be from Riga.
Crossed Keys with a cross + between the bits |
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The
bows of 14th century were fancy with three loops but
when
the bows of the crossed keys are circular it indicates
a
seal dating from the the late 18th to early 19th century.
All
flax seals have circular bows on the crossed keys but
unfortunately this seal has nothing to do with flax and is
probably a company seal of a foreign company especially
as
it has RIGA written between the keys in Latin script
and
is suggestive of a customs tax .. This seal comes from
a
French source and there is no photo for the reverse .. |
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Found at Bentham Mills |
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Notes |
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R
b01 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
+
x
Crossed Keys with a
+
are Riga City. Keys with a
X may be St Petersburg
IDS 186
The reverse is usually blank but the
letters PSt and a 4 indicates FOURBAND flax
which was superior to 3-band - exported to
England from Libau & Memel.
Below the keys is a number 1, 2, 3 indicating
the quality of the flax. 1 is 1st
grade or sort
, the top quality.
Letters such as B
for Bracked (inspected)
or
Badstuben,
a
type of THREEBAND
(Drujaner & Coupland
flax)
and TW (possibly customs tax
paid)
TAMOЖHЯ occur on the obverse on very rare
occasions.click
Riga City Arms Seal |
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R
b02 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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R
b03 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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R
b04 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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R
b05 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank |
Riga |
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Found at West House
Mills |
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Notes |
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Riga
w01 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
DATING CROSS KEY SEALS
Considering the largest number of Riga X seals have been found at West House Mills it would suggest
they were most prevalent during the time of the dated seals at that mill
.. which means in the latter part 18th century to the early 1800's.
..Paul Cannon notes ..
A reference to what is probably a lead seal attached
to hemp is to be found in a document in the National Archives:
from Robert Thornton, hemp
merchant, of Mark Lane.
Receipt of letter from the Portsmouth Officers complaining
of the heat in the delivery of hemp. But Hemp or flax delivered in the summer season
will always be very hot. The Prospero, Captain Adam Rigden, is delivering hemp
which will doubtless be very hot. He has never known a Ropemaker complain of the quality of the hemp and his hemp meets his contract so he asks that the Ropemaker should check the quality and that his ships should be immediately
unloaded.
The hemp has been well cured otherwise it would not have passed the Barack at Riga, which is proved by the mark on the roundels.
The document is dated 7 July 1732.
If the marked ‘roundels’ are indeed lead seals then this date is
earlier than the dated seal so far recovered of 1737 for St
Petersburg.
Riga is
specifically referred to and it is possible that they are plain crossed
keys type and if so,
then some of these may be earlier than has been assumed.
Ged Dodd
adds that ...
none of these Riga
seals have an inscription stating whether they are hemp or flax .. but hemp seals carry the notation SPB, CПБ
for Saint Petersburg
(except one seal from Archangel) but I believe
this notation was used for all hemp bales regardless of the port of
dispatch .. which may have been ..via St Petersburg, Riga, Port Narva, Reval, Pernau,
Libnau, Memel, Windau or even Archangel.
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Riga
w02 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w03 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w04 |
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blank |
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Blank
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Riga
Narva |
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Riga
w05 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w06 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w07 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w08 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga
(SPB) |
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Riga
w09 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w10 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w11 |
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X
crossed keys
2 |
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usually
blank
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Riga
(SPB) |
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Riga
w12 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w13 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga
(SPB) |
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Riga
w14 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w15 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
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usually blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w16 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w17 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w18 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
w19 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Found at Aked High
Mills
* found at Whinny Hill |
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Notes |
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Riga
AWX1 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga
* |
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Riga
AWX2 |
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X
crossed keys
2 |
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usually
blank
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Riga
* |
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Found at Little Patrick
Mills |
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Notes |
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Riga
L0 1 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
L0 2 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
L0 3 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
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usually
blank
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Riga
(SPB) |
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Found at
Knaresborough |
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# |
OBVERSE click
thumbnail |
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Notes |
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Riga
Kn01 |
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+
crossed keys
-
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
Kn 02 |
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+
crossed keys
-
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
Kn 03 |
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+
crossed keys
-
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usually
blank
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Riga
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Riga
Kn 04 |
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+
crossed keys
-
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usually
blank
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Riga |
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Riga
Kn 05 |
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+
crossed keys
2
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usually
blank
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Riga
2nd
grade |
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Found at King Horn Mills in Fife |
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# |
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thumbnail |
REVERSE click
thumbnail |
Notes |
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Riga
KH01 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Riga
KH02 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Riga
KH03 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Riga
KH04 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Riga
KH05 |
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X
crossed keys
2 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Found at Folly Gill
Mills |
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Notes |
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Riga
L03 |
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+
crossed keys
3 |
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scallops
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Riga |
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Found at Brompton Mills |
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# |
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thumbnail |
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Notes |
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BR
keys
001 |
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+
crossed keys
2
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blank |
Riga
city |
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BR
keys
002 |
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X
crossed keys
no grade number |
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blank |
Riga
city |
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the left hand side of the keys is missing |
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BR
keys
003 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
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blank |
Riga
city |
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Found at Arbroath |
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Notes |
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Arb
X 01 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Arb
X 02 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
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blank
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Riga |
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Arb X03 |
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X crossed keys 1 |
no photo |
blank |
1 ADMUS:
A1988.287 |
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Arb X04 |
no photo |
РИЖ 1787 (Riga Arms) |
no photo |
blank |
2 ADMUS:
A1988.288 |
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Arb X05 |
no photo |
+ / crossed keys / 1 |
no photo |
blank |
7 ADMUS:
A1988.294 |
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Arb X06 |
no photo |
+ / crossed keys / 3 |
no photo |
blank |
13
ADMUS:
A1988.301 |
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Arb X07 |
no photo |
+ / crossed keys / 2 |
no photo |
blank |
28 ADMUS:
A2000.87.3 |
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Arb X08 |
no photo |
+ / crossed keys / 1 |
no photo |
blank |
31 ADMUS:
A2003.53 |
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Arb X09 |
no photo |
+ / crossed keys / 2 |
no photo |
blank |
39 ADMUS:
DBM.42179(a) |
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Riga Customs Tax
Flax Seals
(T = ТАМОЖЕНЯ
= Customs Tax .. W = Wrack or bracked flax)
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thumbnail |
Notes |
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IDS
105 |
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+
Crossed Keys
T W |
blank |
blank |
Riga
Customs Tax Seal
T =
ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
probably
all flax seals
IDS 105 Surju, Estonia
IDS 219
Pernau, Latvia
IDS 818
Aalborg, Denmark
IDS 896
Svenstrup, Denmark
IDS 1101
Aalborg, Denmark
W = Wrack, Bracked Flax |
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IDS
219
|
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+
Crossed Keys
T W |
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blank |
Riga
Customs Tax Seal
T =
ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
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IDS
818 |
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+
crossed keys
W T W |
 |
? |
Riga
Customs Tax Seal
T =
ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
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IDS
896 |
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+
crossed keys
W T W |
 |
? |
Riga
Customs Tax Seal
T = ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
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IDS
925 |
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+
Crossed Keys
F |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
|
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IDS
1101 |
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+
T
crossed keys K
? |
 |
blank |
Riga
Customs Tax Seal
T = ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
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IDS
1 457 |
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(cross)
W Crossed Keys T
no grade number |
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blank |
Riga
Customs Tax Seal
T = ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
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Ident Service for
Private Sources |
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# |
OBVERSE click
thumbnail |
REVERSE click
thumbnail |
Notes |
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IDS
011 |
 |
+
crossed Keys
2 (grade) |
 |
blank |
Riga |
St Saviour's Church, Riga, 1863
 |
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IDS
186 |
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X
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
PSt
(Port St
Petersburg) |
Riga
(SPB) |
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IDS
234 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
425 |
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+
Crossed Keys
? |
 |
blank |
Riga |
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IDS
583 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
usually
blank |
Riga
|
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IDS
614 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga |
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IDS
615 |
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X
crossed keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(SPB) |
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IDS
616 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga |
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IDS
787.1 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga |
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IDS
787.2 |
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+
crossed keys
. |
no photo |
???? |
Not
a Bulla
English
City Cloth seal |
Cr
031 |
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?
Crossed Keys
3 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga |
IDS
813 |
 |
+
crossed keys
2 |
 |
blank |
eBay |
IDS
814 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
eBay |
IDS
815 |
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+
crossed keys
? |
 |
blank |
eBay |
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IDS
818 |
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+
crossed keys
W T W |
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G ? |
possibly a
Customs Tax Seal
T =
ТАМОЖЕНЯ |
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IDS
875 |
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+
crossed keys
3 |
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blank |
Riga
|
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IDS
899 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
|
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IDS
913 |
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x
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
926 |
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X
Crossed Keys
3 |
 |
blank |
Riga
perhaps
St
Petersburg |
|
IDS
944 |
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X
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
perhaps
St
Petersburg |
IDS
971 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
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blank
|
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1004 |
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X
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
perhaps
St
Petersburg |
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IDS
1018 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1036 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1076 |
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X
crossed keys
B
1 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
|
B = Badstuben, a type of THREEBAND (Drujaner
& Coupland flax) 1st sort |
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IDS
1087 |
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+
crossed keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1091 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
|
IDS
1095 |
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X
crossed keys
2 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1223 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1233 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1260 |
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X
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(flax) |
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IDS
1310 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
1st grade
(flax) |
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IDS
1320 |
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R I G A
Crossed Keys |
 |
blank |
Riga
probably balsam |
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IDS
1334 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
2nd grade
(flax) |
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More Seals |
|
# |
OBVERSE click
thumbnail |
REVERSE click
thumbnail |
Notes |
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IDS
256 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
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IDS
257 |
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+
Crossed Keys
3 |
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blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
258 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
264 |
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+
Crossed Keys |
 |
blank
|
Not a Bulla
English
City Cloth seal |
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IDS
265 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
266 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
559 |
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x
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
626 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga |
|
IDS
634 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st
grade flax) |
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IDS
1191 |
 |
ф
crossed keys
no grading number |
no photo |
blank |
Riga seals have a
+
(flax) |
|
IDS 1191
the jagged line motif may be a flowerless flax stem ..
ф (F) may be a symbol for flax |
|
IDS
1192 |
 |
X
crossed keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd grade flax) |
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More Seals |
|
# |
OBVERSE click
thumbnail |
REVERSE click
thumbnail |
Notes |
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IDS
268 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
PAS SUR
-8DA072 |
A crossed keys seal in the British
Museum
brought to our attention
by Stuart F Elton.
This is not a
bulla flax seal but a rivet type
cloth bale seal. |
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IDS
272 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
PAS
BERK
-279765 |
|
IDS
273 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
PAS leic
-a08606 |
|
IDS
274 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
PAS SWYOR
-
B9EDC4 |
|
IDS
279 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
PAS YORYM
- EC5B75 |
|
IDS
560 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
|
blank
|
Riga
PAS SWYOR
-95DSB2 |
|
IDS
733 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
PAS SWYOR
-F5EA7C |
|
IDS
1096 |
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+
crossed keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
PAS - North Wales
(flax) |
|
IDS
1308 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
PAS SUR-75FDE1 |
|
IDS
1320 |
|
R I G A
Crossed Keys |
|
blank |
Riga |
|
IDS
1397 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
2nd grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1399 |
|
X
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
1st grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 400 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
2nd grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 401 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
2nd grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 402 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
1st grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 404 |
|
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
1st grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 405 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
2nd grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 411 |
|
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
1st grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 414 |
|
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
1st grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 452 |
|
X
Crossed Keys
(no grade number) |
 |
usually
blank
CO |
Riga (??) |
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IDS
1 454 |
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+
Crossed Keys
3 |
 |
blank |
Riga
3rd Grade
(flax) |
|
IDS
1 464 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 465 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank with scratches |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 484 |
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X
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 485 |
|
X
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 503 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 565 |
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X
Crossed Keys
3 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(3rd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 589 |
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+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 590 |
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X
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 595 |
 |
? (+
or x)
Crossed Keys
?
(1,2 or 3) |
 |
blank |
Riga
(? Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1 596 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
? (1,2 or 3) |
 |
blank |
Riga
(? Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1609 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1613 |
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+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1614 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1615 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1616 |
 |
X
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1623 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1631 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys (2)
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1668 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1689 |
 |
X
Crossed Keys
no grade number |
 |
blank with
scratches |
possibly not Riga
 |
|
IDS
1694 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st grade flax) |
|
IDS
1705 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
IDS
1768 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank |
Riga
(2nd Grade flax) |
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Aberdeen |
ABD
019 |
no photo |
+
crossed keys
1 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
ABD019 19 ABDMS:
072697 |
ABD
020 |
no photo |
+
crossed keys
1 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
|
ABD020 20 ABDMS:
072698 |
ABD
021 |
no photo |
+
crossed keys
1 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
(1st Grade flax) |
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ABD021 21 ABDMS: 072699 |
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Ident Service for UK Detector
Finds Database (UKDFD) |
|
# |
OBVERSE click
thumbnail |
REVERSE
click
thumbnail |
Notes |
|
IDS
250 |
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+
Crossed Keys
- |
 |
blank
|
Riga
(SPB)
UKDFD 17533 |
Riga Harbour in the 19th Century |
|
IDS
251 |
 |
x
Crossed Keys
2 |
 |
blank
|
Riga
(SPB)
UKDFD 38104 |
|
IDS
252 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
- |
blank |
blank |
Riga
UKDFD 9415 |
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Cross Key Seals in
John Sullivan's book |
|
# |
OBVERSE click
thumbnail |
REVERSE click
thumbnail |
Notes |
|
JS01 |
 |
1893+
Crossed Keys БE ПPABA
(BE PRAVA) |
PИЖCKИИ ЧEPHЫИ
БAЛЬЗAMЪ
RIGA BLACK BALSAM
(BE PRAVA = WAS CORRECT)
26 ADMUS: M1998.94
|
ISBN 978
1 86217 465 4
|
|
JS02 |
 |
x
Crossed Keys
? |
 |
44 band
pass hemp |
Riga
(SPB)
87 GGD 01 |
|
JS03 |
 |
+
Crossed Keys
1 |
blank |
blank |
Riga
1 ADMUS: M1988.287 |
|
JS04
|
 |
+
Crossed Keys
2 |
blank |
blank |
Riga
17 WE 08 |
|
JS05
|
 |
+
Crossed Keys
3 |
blank |
blank |
Riga
10 PERMG: 2000.243.9 |
|
DUN
015
|
no photo |
+
Crossed Keys
2 |
no photo |
blank |
Riga
15 DUN:
1999.21(6) |
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