I.E. Saunders Kohlrabi Seal, Image by Beau Dandy.
27mm diameter.
Bag Seal of I.E. Saunders with the same imprint on both sides - I.E.SAUNDERS across the top curved around the inner perimeter of a continuous raised circular boarder, underneath in the centre is the image of a kohlrabi with KOHL on one side of it and RABI on the other, beneath this is CLAYHITHE above CAMBRIDGE both curved upwards.
Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, 1883 lists under Horningsea (Clay Hithe) Saunders Brothers & Co as coprolite merchants. Also listed there on page 81, "Saunders Isaac Ebenezer, farmer. Clay Hithe". The use of I.E. Saunders rather than the brothers company name would suggest that this seal was for farm produce, kohlrabi, rather than the coprolite fertiliser.
