Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Bury, John Grundy & Sons & Wood

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, John Grundy & Sons & Wood*, Bury, Image & Found by Stephanie Inskeep.
Found in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A., 28mm.

No 6... / (44 scratched) // BURY, IOHN.GR... & WOOD star, around

A broken clothier's seal from Bury. Most probably the No.6.. is an order number and the scratched 44 is the length of the cloth.

*From Paul Cannon, "I wonder if this seal might read “BURY, IOHN GR[UNDY ………….. ] & WOOD”. Amongst the partnerships dissolved and recorded in The Leeds Intelligencer of 15 January, 1829, p4 is ‘J & E Grundy and A Wood, Bury, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers’.
Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette of 18 April 1829, p7, supplies the first names: Grundy, John, Sons & Wood – viz John Grundy, Edmund Grundy and Abraham Wood (as administrator of Thomas Jackson Wood, deceased,) of Bury, Lancashire, woollen-mercers and merchants. Grundy, Sons & Wood of Silver Street, Bury are recorded as ‘Manufacturers of Woollens’ and also as ‘Merchants’. See Pigot & Co’s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9 (Lancashire section).

From Mike Patrick, "A few more snippets to add to Paul Cannon's excellent diagnosis:
1. Barclays Bank has been present in Bury, Greater Manchester, in one form or another, since 1798 when woollen merchants John Grundy and Abraham Wood founded a predecessor bank based in Silver Street.

2. History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Wales & Co, 1824
Grundy John, Sons and Wood, woollen manufacturers, Silver-street, Bury.

3. Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser - Wednesday 07 January 1829
Dissolution of Partnerships: John Grundy, Edmund Grundy, and Abraham Wood, Bury, Lancashire, woollen-manufacturers and merchants.

4. The London Gazette - 6 January 1829, Issue:18538, Page:29
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership trade or concern subsisting between John Grundy and Edmund Grundy, and Abraham Wood (as Administrator of the goods and chattels of Thomas Jackson Wood, deceased), all of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Woollen-Manufacturers and Merchants, carried on at Bury aforesaid, under the firm of John Grundy, Sons, and Wood, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. — Witness our hands the 31st day of December 1828.
John Grundy.
Edmund Grundy.
Abm. Wood, (Administrator of the late Thomas Jackson Wood).

5. Will of Abraham WOOD, of Revivals, Bury, proved 1 Dec 1849 - executors included Edmund Grundy and John Grundy."