Carters Seal, Image by StuE, Found by Saxonman.
Found in Beccles Suffolk
ID from other seals :-
One side has Carters in joined script straight across the centre with a circular border of joined pellets. The other side has LONDON and a five petalled flower head curved around the inside the joined pellet circle.
The script style of Carters looks very much like that registered as the trademark for Carters Tested Seeds (The Best & Cheapest) 1879.
James Carter, Dunnet and Beale of 237-238 High Holborn, London
* 1804(?) Company was established.
* 1879 Company first registered a trademark for Trocadero - Carters Grass Seeds, the company's agricultural and horticultural seeds.
* 1910 The company moved from High Holborn to Raynes Park, South West London.
* 1930 The company became a limited company as Carters Tested Seeds Ltd.
* 2008 The company, along with Suttons is now part of Vilmorin, an international company, and one of the largest packet seed distributors in the world.
Source of Information:- Trademarked. A History of Well-Known Brands - from Aertex to Wright's Coal Tar by David Newton. Pub: Sutton Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-0-7509-4590-5.
