Swiss, J. Frossard & Co., Tobacco Industry Seal

Swiss, J. Frossard & Co., Tobacco Industry Seal, Image & Held by Mike Patrick.
Part of e-bay auction lot. Dia. = 23mm max. Thickness = 6mm.

From Mike Patrick:-
"Both sides have the same trade mark (crossed hooks with a medallion). On one side the trade mark is surrounded by the legend J. FROSSARD & Cie., PAYERNE. On the other, J. F. & Cie. appears above the trade mark, with a star on each flank.

Publicity labels carry a trade mark of 'crossed hooks with a medallion bearing the federal cross of Switzerland' [see link below]

For several decades, the Swiss town of Payerne was one of the most important and prestigious centres of the tobacco industry in Europe, due fundamentally to the location of two large factories: J. Frossard & Co. (1868-1965) and Fivaz & Co. (1876-1965). Payerne is situated in the southwest of Switzerland, and is currently the capital of one of the nineteen districts of the canton of Vaud whose capital is Lausanne.
Jules Frossard, founder of J. Frossard & Co., was born in 1835 in Payerne, his father Louis Frossard being the prefect. He died in his native city in 1909 at the age of 73. In 1859 he opened a tobacco leaf trading business in Payerne, which he transferred to Swiss and English manufacturers before setting up his first factory.
The onset of Payerne's success in the tobacco industry began when, in August 1868, the industrial tobacco workers Henri Warnéry and Hockenjos liquidated their buildings and goods in the city. Immediately Jules Frossard acquired them, and in this way founded his first tobacco manufacturing facility.
Frossard was one of the pioneers in the manufacture of "twist" (chewing tobacco) in Europe, although he also manufactured other products, such as nicotine-based insecticides, under the trade names of Frossardine and Frossardol.
The tobacco factory of J. Frossard & Co, now disappeared, had its glory years between the Franco-Prussian Wars of 1870 and the First World War of 1914. His factory employed 500 workers in 1909 and won numerous awards and international distinctions.
Commercial expansion led to factories in Argentina, Australia and South Africa. From 1918, owing to the closure of foreign markets due to the First World War, the decline of Frossard tobacco manufacture began, aggravated by changes in pattern of cigarette consumption. Finally, in 1965, the company of Rinsoz & Ormond S.A. in the town of Vevey acquired Payerne's two tobacco factories.

See COLECCIONISTA DE VITOLAS DE PUROS JUAN ALBERTO BERNI GONZALEZ (vitólfilo) A.V.E. 1415"