Fertilitas Bag Seal, Image by StuE, Found by JCMaloney.
Found in Corfe Parish, Dorset, 21mm.
Rampant lion in continuous raised line circular border within another circular border of dots. The other side has the inscription FERTILITAS ACTIEN GESLLSOE S???PERG
German fertiliser?
From Paul Cannon, "For what appears to be a better example of this seal see Gelsenkirchener Geschichten. The inscription reads FERTILITAS ACTIEN GESELLSC(HAFT) SCHALKE ie Fertilitas Joint Stock Company Schalke. Schalke is a municipality in the German State of North-Rhine Westphalia. According to Ludwig Beck's book, Die Geschichte des Eisens in Technischer und Kulturgeschichticher Beziehung, Vol 5 (1903) p1008, in 1884, the Fertilitas company set up two factories for the production of fertilisers from slag. These were in Stollberg near Aachen and Schalke, Westphalia."
