Ingleby, JA, Swan White Flour Bag Seal, Image & Found by Bilox.
Found in Yorkshire, 18mm, 4.8g.
A lead flour bag seal of the Tadcaster millers, J A Ingleby. One side is inscribed J A [INGL]EBY TADCASTER ROLLER MILLS. The other is inscribed S[WA]N WHITE FLOUR inside an annulus and has the number 2 at the centre.
Joseph Rank wrote of this mill:
"I think it was about the year 1883 that I saw the first roller mill, when I went with a friend to Messrs. Ingleby's Mill at Tadcaster, which mill had started to grind on the roller system. I saw at once there the great advantage to be gained by grinding with steel rollers in preference to millstones. Although at that time the mill was not automatic, and they had to move the products about in sacks, the flour was in every way better."
