BSG.BS.00723 — French, Flour Bag Seal, Schotsmans Lyoen Seal

Found in England, 17mm, 6.2g.

Garbe (sheaf) with four flower heads around on horizontally striped background, quatrafoil SCHOTSMANS.LYOE(N) around // À, (pentafoil) sheaf pentafoil AIRE (SU)UR-LA LY(S) around

From Paul Cannon, "According to the following link Jean-Françoise Schotsmans married Nathalie Lyoen. Both their names appear on the seal. In the 1840s Schotsmans rebuilt and established an important flour mill at Moulin-le-Comte in Aire-sur-la-Lys in the Pas-de-Calais. For further details of the mill and its buildings see Patrimony and Historic Monuments of France."