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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 10229722, member: 10944&quot;]Bale seals. They were attached to sacks and bales of basically any commodity. Various seals guaranteed the commodity was of a certain grade (ex: grade a, grade b…), and/or was inspected by a certain place/person, and/or was from a certain place. Other info could be communicated on them as well. Royal seals sometimes I believe. I’ve found many dozens of them, all lead in the USA.they are about the size of a dime to a nickel usually but thicker. A piece of wire ran through the middle of two lead discs.The wire was pressed between the two lead discs, effectively sealing it. If the wire was cut and the bale opened and interfered with you would know it. We still use similar basic technology when shipping commodities around the world today. </p><p><br /></p><p>We haven’t seen a side view or view of the reverse yet but this sure looks like brass or some copper based alloy. Could be clay though. I think y’all over in Europe did use clay bale seals many, many moons ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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