French, Flour Bag Seal, Masset, St.Omer, Seal, Image & Found by Alan Rutter.
Found in Usan, Montrose, north east Scotland, ?mm.
Centrifugal governor, H. MASSET.. curving downwards ST.OMER... curving upwards, around // obscured image, ...CEMBRE curving downward (CYL?)INDRES curving upwards
From Philippe Lanez, "Obverse legend is * Hte. - MASSET, curving downwards and St.OMER curving upwards, around a Watt, ball regulator.
Reverse reads MARS // 907 // CYLINDRES, for march 1907 production.
Hte is short form for Haute, here = Upper.. MASSET is the name of the owner in the 1900's.
Though the place name was Haute Meldyck (river name from flamisch Molen = mills).
Mr. Masset owned, ar least 2 mills and lands around.
We can find in archives an exchange of acres, between parties.
"Plan showing the lands to be ceded by the City to Mr.Masset and those surrendered in exchange to the City. Prepared by François Ernest Guinoiseau, civil engineer, 1895.
Local archives of Saint-Omer, file 125.
The opening of the Adolphe Dalemagne Street in 1908 necessitated an exchange of land between the city and the owner of the mills, which had been set up initially of Upper Meldyck."
"Plan showing the land to be transferred by the City to Masset and transfer to the State by the City of Saint-Omer of the land necessary for the construction of a new armoury in the square.
Extract from the cadastral parcel plan annexed to the deed of assignment dated 5 April 1912.
Town Archives.Saint-Omer, file 137E"
