Russian Empire Seal, Image & Found by Nick Has.
Found in Tampere, Finland, 20mm.
Russian imperial eagle, inscription around // Cyrillic script
Looks to be an official Russian seal from before the Soviet era.
From Paul Cannon, "I believe this incomplete seal is associated with the very extensive milling industry of the Bashkirov family of Nizhny Novgorod. Some of the inscription is missing but can be reconstructed from better surviving examples.
Right hand image: reading up clockwise from 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock [TOPГ. ДОМЪ] / ‘flower head’ / [БАШКИ]РОВЫХЪ (across centre) / BЪ / reading down anti-clockwise from 8 o’clock to 4 o’clock [НИЖН.]НОВГОР.
Left hand image: Reading up clockwise from 7 o’clock ВС[ЕР.]ХУДО[Ж.ПРОМ.ВЫСТ.1882 Г] around the Russian Imperial eagle.
The following is a Google translation of part of the text on the Europlomb Website where several more complete examples can be found:
“Pellets of mill seals, belonging to the trading house (Торговому дому) Bashkirova (БАШКИРОВЫХЪ) of Nizhny Novgorod (НИЖН. НОВГОР.) - This family enterprise was one of the largest in Russia. It was founded on November 23, 1871 in the center of the city and near the Volga. Its founder, was the son of a serf (Yemelyan Grigorevichem Bashkirov? -1887). The latter became free in 1850 and engaged in the hay trade on the steps. He then succeeded in saving. He then joined the 1870st Nizhny Novgorod Merchants' Guild in 1. In 1871 together with his sons Nicholas, Jacob and Matthew he founded the trading house "Yemelyan Bashkirov and his sons." The company specializes in the grain trade and flour production thanks to its flour mill. The initial capital of 60,000 rubles. In the 1870s the Bashkirova became "millionaires". The company had its own fleet, consisting of a tug and nine grain barges, as well as several stores in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1877 the capital of the company amounted to more than one nillion rubles. The greatest attention was paid to the factory buildings and their technical upgrade, investing large sums of money. The company had 2 mills in Kanavino has steam and hydraulics in a village on the river Mysovke Linda. Then Bashkirova began to build one of the largest factories in the Volga. In 1890 they already owned 34 grain barges and 3 tugs ("Minin", "Nizhegorodets", "La Grande-Duchesse Maria") and 1 steamer in launch ("Mukosey"). For the repair of ships they built their own dock. The mills produced wheat, rye, millet, buckwheat and other grains. In the mid-1880s the company entered the European grain market, acquiring warehouses and offices in Hamburg, Lübeck, Berlin, Helsingfors. In 1886, the founder of the trading house Yemelyan G. retired. After the death of Yemelyan Bashkirov the trading house passed on to his three sons and was divided equally among the three brothers who then founded their own flour sales companies. The milling company was one of the suppliers of the imperial court of the Romanovs. Lead bearing the date 1882 which is the date of the award obtained at the Moscow Exhibition (ВСЕР. ХУДОЖ. ПРОМ. ВЫСТ. 1882 Г.:Всемирной промышленной, художественной выставки - Moscow World Exhibition of Industrial Arts 1882)."
