This wooden printing block printed identification marks onto the coarse cloth that protected bales of textiles. Known as a 'tillet block', it allowed particular information to be added for different bales. There is a space for the number of the bale and amount of yards of textile. The plate is decorated with the Royal Coat of Arms at the top with a lower crest of a chevron surmounted by a ram with the words 'My trust is in God alone' and 'extra superfine cloth, London'. The printing plate came from the Ledgers, a firm of buckram stiffeners and dyers of Potter's Field, Tooley Street, Southwark.
