Page 202 - Loss of the VOC Retourschip Batavia, Western Australia, 1629

BA T 3216 (SCALE 1:1)
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BA T 3305 (SCALE 1:1)
BAT 3037A (SCALE 1:1)
BA T 7003 (SCALE 1:1)
BAT 3237
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the length was four ells. BAT 7055 has inscribed lines suggesting the number 23 (made up of lines representing 10+10+1+1+1).BAT7056 has thetracesofthewords 'LONDONSTALL' aroundtheedgeofthesidewith thenumber 'I' and a madder bag in the centre. The 'stall' orstael marlc: was the fmal Guild mark affixed to the cloth indicating it's degree or rank; the 'I' meant that it had been washed once in woad, a pale blue dye. The figures 'PM T(?)W' were possibly a person's initials, the dyer perhaps. BAT 7096 and BAT 3037A have the figures '5D' stamped on them indicating the dun or fmeness or thickness of the material. There are two examples, BA T 3313 and BA T 3305, stamped with A VOC, indicating that the quality was set, or the material was owned, by the Amsterdam Chamber of the V.O.C. Therearealsotwoexamples,BAT3824andBAT7003, which,itissuggested,havebeenstampedwithawheel,the mark of the Guild of Cloth Dyers of St Martin's, London. However, this could also he a sun, and thus the mark of the finnenb/okefs or linen bleachers.
BA T 3037 (SCALE 1:1)
BA T 3313 (SCALE 1:1)
BAT 7096 (SCALE 1:1)
BA T 3824 (SCALE 1:1)
BAT 7056 (SCALE 1:1)
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