Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Hoyle & Co, Image & Found by Jose de Sousa.
Found in Algarve, Portugal, 35 x 30mm, 15.7g.
HOYLE / & Co // blank
A two disc clothier's seal with two possible attributions.
From Jose de Sousa, see Grace's Guide, "Joshua Hoyle and Sons of 50 Piccadilly, Manchester. London Office: 12 Bow Lane, EC4. 1834 Company established."
From Mike Patrick, "HOYLE Nicholas & Co. - i.e. Nicholas Hoyle and John Bealey, Bury and Manchester, woollen manufacturers, and woollen carders, and spinners. [Law Advertiser for the year 1831, Vol.IX, London, p.295]
The London Gazette - 20 April 1838 Issue:19609, Page:941.
NOTICE is hereby given. that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Nicholas Hoyle, James Hoyle, and Dennis Grundy, carrying on business at Hinds Mill, near Bury, in the county of Lancaster, as Cotton-Spinners, under the firm of Hoyle and Co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent, so far as regards the said James Hoyle, who retires therefrom. All debts owing by or to the said late concern will be paid and received by the said Nicholas Hoyle and Dennis C Grundy, who will in future carry on the said business, on their own account, under the said firm of Hoyle and Co.: As witness our hands the 5th day of July 1837.
Nicholas Hoyle. James Hoyle. Dennis Grundy."
As the name on the seal has no name or initial before the surname and the latter quote actually mentions using the buisness name of just Hoyle & Co then this is the favoured attribution.
