Seed Merchants, Carters Bag Seal, London

Carters Seal, Image & Found by IronRon.
Found in Lincolnshire, 25mm.

Dotted circle on both sides, Carters straight across the middle in joined script on one side and LONDON around the top of the inside of the circle on other side with a seven petalled flower head in the space left between the N and L of LONDON. See other Carters seals, some with five petalled flower heads.

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.

Catalogues and papers from 1837 - 1959 relating to this company are held at Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.

A company book is also available:- Title: The Blue Book of Gardening, Publisher: Carter's Seeds, London, Publication Date: 1934.