French, Flour Bag Seal, Darblay

French, Flour Bag Seal, Darblay, Image & Found by Len Williams (Fingers).
Found In Carnforth Lancashire, 18 x 15mm.

FEVR, MARQUE SUPÉRIEUR * around // 63, DARBLAY JEUNE curving downwards A COBEIL curving upwards around (interpreted from other seals)

See corbeil.essonnes.free.fr Linking to a significant family of industrialists in 19th France. This seal relates to Aimé-Stanislas Darblay (1794-1878). He was the younger of two brothers who was also known as ‘Darblay Jeune’. He was responsible for modernising and improving the flour mills at Corbeil, south of Paris. The bag was filled and sealed in February 1863. See BSG.BS.00635.