SKG & Co Seal

SKG & Co Seal, Image & Found by Mohican.
Found nr Newent, Gloucestershire, 20mm.

SKG / & Co / 184(?) // III / SORT

S.K.G (or C?) & Co 1847 or 1 ? The other side appears to have III above the word SORT.

Sort is often used in relation to flax.

From Ged Dodd, "This is probably a British company S.KG & Co based in St Petersburg in 1847. The reverse shows III SORT.. 3rd Sort ..and may be flax however .. Russian customs had similar grading on lots of exports including - iron, copper, hemp, flax, codilla, cordage, tallow and tallow candles, wax and wax candles, soap, potash, hemp seed oil, linseed oil, isinglass, tobacco leaves, horse hair, treacle, bristles, Muscovy leather, sole leather, tar, pitch, linen yarn, mats, & feathers and down, wool, caviar, tea, hops, horsetails, hare skins, Morocco bear skins, calve skins, deals, spars, quills, hats, ox and deer tongues, glass of different kinds, sailcloth, ravenduck, drillings, different kinds of napkin cloth, wheat, rye, linseed, flems, linen of different sorts, ox and cow horns and bones, and other lesser goods. See ref IDS 1183 on The PeaceHavens Project, Seal Numbers 1101 - 1200."