✅ SOLVED Lead Seal

[justtryingitout]

Found this in a park in Florida. It is about the size of a nickle but about a quarter inch thick. I tried to search the webs and only found this link Plombs de scelles "S.ST.A. LEOPOLDS HALL"
I have no idea what it is for or how old it is. Anybody know anything about this.

 

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[digging440yrs]

Looks like a bale seal

 

[rochwitt]

lead seal

 

[rochwitt]

here is another looks like digging440 is correct
Bale Seal Mystery solved!....

 

[justtryingitout]

Nice ID digging440yrs and rochwitt. Thanks

 

[Wally Taylor]

Wouldn't it be in reverse if it was a seal. I don't know. I'm just curious.

 

[OcdChaos]

Wouldn't it be in reverse if it was a seal. I don't know. I'm just curious.

I believe that bale seals were like ID tags to hang on things like bags of textiles and whatnot for content identification. Not a letter seal like you would press into wax that would be in reverse.