French, Flour Bag Seal, Jamin & Leroux, Le Mans
French, Flour Bag Seal, Jamin & Leroux, Le Mans, Image & Found by Tommy Shaw.
Found in North Wales, 15mm.
Five pointed star, AU MANS around (J)AMIN LEROUX around // (G)RUAUX
From Philippe Lanez, "French flour bag seal, which reads one side GRUAUX (Hulled and coarsely ground grain, as used in porridge). The other side is JAMIN // LEROUX around AU MANS = In Le Mans, Sarthe departement, wide western Region. Learn more about Saint-Georges mill at: Saint-Georges du Mans mills."
From the abpove link, "Two bakers from Le Mans, Messrs Jamin and Leroux, in the 1850s, partners, built in Le Mans, on the Huisne, a mill at the Gué de Maulny according to the so-called English methods, the most modern of the time. A few years later, the project to build a large flour mill was born between them.
By Imperial Decree of the 1stDecember 1860, Napoleon III granted permission to build a wheat mill on the right bank of the Sarthe, at a place called the ford of hell in Saint Georges du Plain. Work began in 1861. The central building was completed in 1863, the sluice and its discharge valve in 1864. The two turbines then drove 30 pairs of millstones. On December 31, 1864, the Jamin et Leroux mill employed 40 people. A few months later the turbines were replaced by 2 Sagebien wheels 9 m in diameter and 6.75 m long. They cost 30,000 francs and have a force of 120 HP. A railway branch linked the factory to the Le Mans-Angers line from 1 September 1866. In 1873 the two 40 m long wings surrounding the central building were completed. In the center of the yard a steam engine with a driving force of 180 HP comes to the aid of the 2 hydraulic wheels ... In 1917, faced with unpaid bills and accumulated deficits, the management of the mill was taken over by a public limited company."
More on the Mill of Saint-Georges & les Moulins de Saint-Georges.
From Michel Royer, An 1889 invoice from Jamin & Leroux.
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