French, Champagne Seal, EHRMANN & FILS, Image by StuE, Found by Fertling John.
Found near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, 18mm, 7.4g.
With the help of another seal - one side has a central bunch of grapes or face with lines radiating out to a dotted border. The other side has a shooting star with inscription around - EHRMANN & FILS curving downwards and TOURS s MARNE curving upwards.
TOURS sur MARNE is a French town in the Champagne district.
Information kindly provided by Arran:-
"I think it said EHRMANN & FILS, and it was for a bag of "soufre", sulphur in good plain English. We still use sulphur on the wine tree's today, it kills bacteria like "Odium" that sometimes grow on the young grapes if the spring was to wet. I have some other bag seals that have the shooting star on it, and they are for sulphur too.
Haute Marne region is not a red wine region, so I think it must be for white wine or Champagne. I tried to "google" the name, but no hits on the factory so that may not exist any more, but the name Ehrmann (German, but the Haute Marne is close to the North border and might as well been German before the French stole parts of Germany after the war) has some hits in that region."
An advertising poster exists for Ehrmann & Fils Golden Goblet Champagne and prices for the 1911 and 1914 vintages. Opens out to show furhter wines available and prices. It gives the address of a London distributor in Finsbury Square.
See BSG.BS.01800 for a similar seal showing EHRMANN FRÈRES.