Seed Merchants, Driffields Farm Seeds Seal, Image by StuE, Found by Bilox.
Found in Yorkshire, 18mm, 6.2g.
.DRIFFIELDS. curving down at the top BRAFFERTON curving up at the bottom and in the centre in two straight lines FARM / SEEDS. The other side is blank.
Possibly taken over by Alexander Harley Seeds (Seaton Ross) Ltd. ?
Information from UKDFD Ref. No. - 26539 :-
"A Thomas Nelson Driffield of Brafferton manor, North Yorkshire, is listed as a farmer and seedsman in Bulmer's Directory of 1890."
"NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership which has for some time past been carried on by Thomas Henry Banks Driffield, Percy Thomas Nelson Driffield and Thomas Frank Driffield under the style of THOS. N. DRIFFIELD & SONS at Brafferton Helperby in the county of York in the trade or business of Seed Growers and Merchants was dissolved by mutual consent on the 3ist day of December 1943. All debts due to or owing by the said firm will be received and paid respectively by the said Percy Thomas Nelson Driffield who will continue to carry on the said business under the present style of Thos. N. Driffield & Sons. — As witness our hands this 11th day of January 1944. T. HY. B. DRIFFIELD. PERCY T. N. DRIFFIELD. T. F. DRIFFIELD." [THE LONDON GAZETTE, 18 JANUARY, 1944]
"SEED GROWERS. Driffield, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Brafferton ; Pilmoor Seed farms, York ; Market place, Thirsk & 2 Coppergate, York" [N. & E. R. YORKS. Trades]
Transcript of the entry for the Post Office, professions and trades for BRAFFERTON in Bulmer's Directory of 1890, under Farmers, "Driffield, Thomas Nelson (and seedsman), Brafferton manor."
