Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Jos Holmes & Son

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Jos Holmes & Son, Image & Found by Peter van Lierop.
Found in Gemonde near Den Bosch, Netherlands, 30mm, 12.1g.

JOS.HOLMES & SON curved down HALIFAX curved up // blank

Standard type of clothiers cloth seal. It would appear that Joseph Holmes & Son also undertook dying of cloth as well as spinning worsted.

'Holmes's: Joseph Holmes & Son Dyers at North Bridge, Halifax (1809)' Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion
'Holmes, Joseph & Son, Dean Clough (Halifax)' - Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Ches, Cumb ..., 1828-29. [Part 2: Notts - Yorks & N Wales] p.939, under 'DYERS' Also on p.942 under 'WORSTED MANUFACTURERS ATTENDING THE MARKET.' - 'Holmes Jos. & Son, Dean Clough (Halifax)'
'Holmes Joseph & Son, Dean Clough (Halifax)' under 'WORSTED SPINNERS' Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Yorks, Leics ... , 1841, p.88.