Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Buck & Kershaws

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Buck & Kershaws, Image & Found by Sander Visser.
Found in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28mm.

Missing // BUCK & KERSHAWS.HALIFAX

The rove disc from a two-disc Halifax clothier's seal. The reverse shows a cloth weave imprint.

From Cathrine Davis, "Buck & Kershaw, Halifax. Active in late 18th early 19th century, dissolved by 1820 if I remember right."

From Paul Cannon, "An advertisement appeared in the Leeds Mercury of 7 June 1774. It is addressed “To the Manufacturers of Worsted Goods in and around Halifax” and relates to the decision about a piece of land to be used for the building of a Piece Hall/Common Hall in Halifax, for the sale of these goods in the town. Amongst the names of the individuals/firms affixed is ‘Buck & Kershaw’. See p211 of the following book, The Yorkshire coiners, 1767-1783. And notes on old and prehistoric Halifax.
On 10th September, 1825, a meeting of the Worsted Spinners and Manufacturers of Halifax and its Vicinity took place relating to the workers of the Worsted Trade. Amongst those present at the meeting were ‘Buck & Kershaws’, who signed the resolutions. [Leeds Intelligencer, 15th September, 1825, p1] It would appear that ‘Buck & Kershaw’ were still operating some 18 years later as on 17th June, 1843 a meeting of the ‘Owners and Occupiers of Mills and Property on the banks of the Halifax Brook, and its branches ……’. The purpose of the meeting was to consider ‘the state of the above Brook, and the best means of preventing it and its branches from being filled up by parties throwing rubbish and other substances into them’. Amongst those listed as not being present at the meeting but who concurred with the resolutions was ‘Buck & Kershaw’. [Halifax Guardian, 24 June, 1843, p4] From all of the above the firm of Buck & Kershaw would appear to have been operating from at least 1774-1843.
Cathrine Davis, in her MA thesis, discusses a Buck & Kershaw seal, which she discovered amongst the seals of the Fort St Joseph Museum Collection in Canada. See Threads Across the Atlantic: Tracing the European Origins of Eighteenth-Century Imported Cloth in New France Using Lead Seal Evidence from Three French Colonial Sites, especially pp 66 and 151."