Flour Bag Seal, Brown & Goodman, Image & Found by Shelly Robson.
Found just outside Baldock Hertfordshire, 18mm.
BROWN & GOODMAN five-pointed star // blank
From National Trust, History of Houghton Mill, "Houghton Mill reached the height of its prosperity around 1850 under the management of successive members of the Brown and Goodman families. At this point the mill was producing a tonne of top-quality flour per hour, which was sold as far away as London and Leicester.
The millers behind the success Potto Brown and Joseph Goodman built up a thriving milling business that produced high-quality flour using French burr millstones and the latest machinery.
Potto Brown’s father, William Brown, was a baker and miller in Earith before he moved to run Houghton Mill. Joseph Goodman and Potto Brown met when they were at school together at Slepe Hall in St Ives. Together they became business partners and took over the running of the mill in 1821, after Potto's father retired.
Following Goodman's death in 1844, Brown continued to expand the business by embracing new technology and building steam-powered mills at St Ives and Godmanchester with the help of Goodman's sons."
From Wikipedia - Potto Brown "Brown and Joseph Goodman, grandfather of the bandy pioneer Charles Goodman Tebbutt, built up a thriving milling business. "Brown and Goodman" of Houghton Flour Mills employed eighteen men and produced a flour whose reputation was well known in London. Brown worked on the principle that the best flour came from a combination of careful blending of wheat and the use of the best milling machinery. Known as a "slow grinder", he spared no expense on his millstones. Having established a friendship with the French miller Auguste-Rodolphe Darblay, Brown adopted the French millstone ventilation system and the French method of dressing millstones with black diamonds.
With the help of his sons and one of Goodman’s sons (Goodman having died in 1844) Brown expanded the business by building steam mills at St Ives (1854) and Godmanchester (1861). Both mills employed the latest French milling technology. He retired from the business in 1862 and spent the remaining years of his life on farming, philanthropic activities, and work as a magistrate."