BSG.BS.01158 — Southern Counties Dairy Seal

Found in Bedfordshire, 19mm, 6.8g.

ASSOCon / LIMITED, SOUTHERN COUNTIES DAIRIES FARM * around // 1

A milk churn seal. "The milk is received in churns twice a day from a number of farms in various parts of the country. All the churns are sealed with a leaden seal, supplied by the receiving firm, and are further identified with marks by the farmer who has despatched them." THE MILK INDUSTRY, Henry Lee, p.346-350, Britain At Work - a pictorial description of our national industries, (1905) Publisher: Cassel and Company Limited, London. (Information provided by Darron Barnes)

The Southern Counties Dairy Farm Association Ltd. was incorporated in 1884 and dissolved before 1916, see BT 31/3337/19835, The National Archives, Kew.