Russian, Ivan Vasilyevich Bubnov & Sons Seal, 1872
Russian, Ivan Vasilyevich Bubnov & Sons Seal, 1872, Image & Found by HungryDuck.
Found in Russia.
The full inscription with thanks to HungryDuck for translating:- "the sons of Ivan Vasilyevich Bubnov (Сыновья Ивана Васьивича Бубнова)".
On the other side is the two headed Russian eagle, the date 1872 and a curved inscription that has not yet been translated.
From Paul Cannon, "I believe the side of the seals so far un-translated reads:
москов политех выст 1872 around the Russian Imperial eagle = THE MOSCOW POLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION, 1872. This major exhibition promoting Russian science and technology took place in 1872 and was dedicated to the 200th birthday of Peter the Great. After the end of the exhibition, its exhibits formed the core of the new State Polytechnical Museum in Moscow.
It seems likely that the firm recorded the fact that it was one of the exhibitors at the 1872 exhibition on its seals. Unfortunately the seals themselves do not record what products Bubnov and his sons were responsible for making."
Ged Dodd suggests the name Ivan Bubnov Vasilyevicha means "belonging to Ivan Bubnov Vasilyevich.
More from Paul Cannon, "For a much better preserved example see SmolBattle (about quarter down the page). The names can be much more clearly read as ‘ИВАНА / ВАСИЛЬЕВ / БУБНОВА / СЫНОВЬЯ’. The other face repeats the Russian for ‘The Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition 1872’. For information on this exhibition (in translation) see Russian Wikipedia.
A very similar (different seal) is recorded on Веневские находки (half way down) but this reads ‘И. В. / БУБНОВА / СЫНОВЬЯ' with МОСКОВС[КАЯ] ПОЛИТЕХНИ[УЕСКАЯ] ВЫСТ[АВКА] on the other face. The Russian contributor adds the following (using Google translate) “According to 1902, there was a Trading House "Ivan Bubnov sons" in Moscow, they had an office and a warehouse near the railroad station Ryazan railway was a branch in St. Petersburg. This company is engaged in trade of grain, flour, malt”. In Penza (a city south east of Moscow) they had a malting plant with 40 workers."
