French, Flour Bag Seal, Garin & Fichaux of Dunkerque
French, Flour Bag Seal, Garin & Fichaux of Dunkerque, Image & Found by Lee
Found in Stirlingshire, 15mm.
GARIN curving downward, letter or design in the centre, F ... X curving upward // Bell, (five pointed star) DUN(K)ERQUE around
Probably a French company with Garin as part of the name situated in Dunkirk.
From Paul Cannon, "Right hand image *DUNKERQUE around a wheatsheaf. My suggestion is that the left hand image can be reconstructed as GARIN [& FICHAU]X. The following link shows that Daniel Garin and Louis Fichaux set up a large mill in Dunkerque to supply the wheat for turning into industrial bread or sea biscuits for the needs of the French navy in 1856. The following is a Google translation of the relevant section of the article.
“The Fichaux flour mill: The immense industrial store located in the Lower Town, at the corner of the Rue de la Verrerie and rue Saint-Charles, is the last remnant of the Dunkerque's Civilian Handling, a large agri-food factory that turned wheat into industrial bread. or sea biscuits for the needs of the navy. Founded in 1856 by two merchants from Dunkerque, Louis Adolphe Fichaux and Daniel
Garin, with the financial support of Gaspard Malo, this industrial complex was completely destroyed during the Second World War, with the exception of the industrial store that was transformed into the 1950s textile factory for the needs of Saint-Frères establishments whose sign can still be seen on one side of the building.”
