Flour Bag Seal, Ingleby, J A, Swan White Flour

Ingleby, J A, Swan White Flour Bag Seal, Image & Found by Bilox.

Came from around Wetherby / Goldsboro / Knaresbough area.
18mm, 5.6g.

A lead flour bag seal of the Tadcaster millers, J A Ingleby. One side is inscribed J.A.INGLEBY curved around the inside top of a circular border, TADCASTE[R] straight across the middle and ROLLER [MILLS] curved around the bottom. Their is a pattern of two dots each side of a flattened six petal flower above and below TADCASTER. The other is inscribed .SWAN [WHITE]. FLOUR inside an annulus and the number 2 is 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."