French, Flour Bag Seal, Pont de Gennes

French, Flour Bag Seal, Pont de Gennes, Image & Found by Mark Little.
Found in Cumbria, 18mm.

1ERE EXTR / A.J., EXPORTATION curving down SARTHE curving up around // 8-petalled flower head, JOUSSELIN curving down PONT-DE-GENNES curving up around

Identified by Philippe Lanez, "EXPORTATION (export) 1ERE EXTR ( possibly first extraction). A.J (owner's initials) and SARTHE (72th department of French administrative division of Napoleonic code, head town Le Mans). The other side reads JOUSSELIN for supposed miller name. ... the place name seems to be PONT-DE-GENNES."

Images of the mill of Pont-de-Gennes.