Belgian, Cement, Chaux du Coucou Seal, Image & Found by MTC Cocoon Wim.
Found in the Oudenaarde region, East Flanders, Belgium, 18mm, 5.9g.
C, CHAUX DU COUCOU around // E, EMINEMENT . HYDRAULIQUE . around
From Echange-passion, "On May 3, 1893, Ernest Lehon, an industrialist, in Antoing, a joint stock company of quarries and lime kilns and cement du Coucou, in Antoing, went to the registry of the Commercial Court of Tournai and filed a model in triplicate of the brand below: Which marks the Sieur Lehon declares adopt to be affixed to the lime bags sprayed leaving the factories of the company. This mark consists of a C surrounded by the words "Cuckoo Lime" in a serrated elliptical circle printed on one side of the bag, and an E surrounded by the words "Eminently Hydraulic" also in a serrated elliptical circle printed with other side of the bag. It is used in dimensions of 50 cm high and 31 wide. The same marks are also printed on both sides of the pellets that are attached to the ligature. These pellets are 1 1/2 centimeters in circumference." [Recueil officiel des marques de fabrique et de commerce].
