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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jivvy, post: 1001129, member: 8184&quot;]And note that while they call it XX, there are serifs on the outside branches, but not where the &quot;two letters&quot; meet in the middle. Could be artistic license, but I see it as an argument&nbsp; for &quot;not XX&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of trade (woolens in particular), the merchant&#039;s marks topic has a lot of crossed paths between the Netherlands and England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an interesting page that includes good info, plus details of a merchant&#039;s mark (of a woolens merchant) worked into the memorial brass (between their heads).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/popcom04.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/popcom04.html" rel="nofollow">http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/popcom04.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]206576[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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