Sugar Bag Seal, James Duncan, London
Sugar Bag Seal, James Duncan, London, Image & Found by Richard Goodrick.
Found ?, ?mm.
JA[MES DU]NCAN / SUGAR / REFINER / LONDON // blank
From Paul Cannon, "I would suggest that the name on the seal probably reads JA[MES DU]NCAN. In the mid 1860s James Duncan developed the Clyde Wharf Refinery in Silvertown, London, which became the largest and most profitable sugar refinery in London. In was closed in 1886 when Duncan was forced into bankruptcy by foreign competition James Duncan."
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