French, Flour Bag Seal, Darblay Corbeil Seal, Image by StuE, Found by Nasher.
Found in North Hertfordshire / Cambridgeshire area, 15 x 19mm, 5.5g.
First side has a circular border of pellets with DARBLAY JNE curving downwards at the top and COBEIL curving upwards at the bottom. In the centre is the letter A underlined. The other side has the same border with MA??(D?)E curving downwards and SǗPĖRIER curving upwards. The number 59 occupies the middle.
This seal may be connected to the earliest continuous paper production carried out in Corbeil :- see Papeterie Darblay. but Corbeil-Essonnes, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris was also a centre of the flour-milling industry in the nineteenth century and the word 'superieure' is often used in connection with flour grades.
From Philippe Lanez, "this seal which reads DARBLAY J.ne for JEUNE- = Young
the man was Aimé-Stanilas Darblay.
The seal is flour bag one, in the year 1859.
The little flower is common to all french flour bag seals.
Moreover, he wanted to diversify his activities. He launched thus, in June 1867, in the purchase of the "Papeterie d'Essonnes S.A.", located in the former fief
of Vaux-sur-Essonne, of which he had been a shareholder since 1855, for 1 million francs instead of 7 million of the estimate." Sources - Lapapeteried’Essonne and Histoire des noms et des lieux.