✅ SOLVED Livestock tag??

[funkman]

Found this yesterday. Has "Rich Clayton Leeds" (or Rich'd) on one side and hand written numbers etched on the other side. The numbers are 68 and under that is 194. Is it an ear tag?

Thanks
Funkman

 

[olroy70]

ear tags werent used until later, and most of em are plastic. I suspect it is a tag off a seed bag.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Isnt that a cloth seal? Chapter Eleven: Lead Seals by J. David McMahan

Early ear tags were indeed metal but not lead as far as I know. Its a very good example of a lead cloth seal

 

[funkman]

Thanks for the replies. Your ideas give me other investigative possibilities.

It is lead. Tried searching for "Rich Clayton Leeds" and cannot find anything on that person or company. I see Richard Clayton and in Leeds, England but nothing that shows this. I will search for seed bag tags and cloth seals to see what gets close.

 

[funkman]

think you are right Bigcypresshunter. Dating is challenging cause I cannot find Rich Clayton, Richard Clayton or Richard Clayton Leeds

Funkman

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

From the link I posted shows how the lead seal was folded and crimped.
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Im not sure if all bags but most bag seals had a wire, I think.

 

[Subterranean]

Cloth or bale seal from the Rich or Right Company out of Leeds (New York) or Clayton (New York?) Happy Hunting and it is a very cool find! Sub

 

[nhbenz]

I find matches for a cloth merchant named Richard Clayton in Leeds at the beginning of the 1800's. He was on Blackman Lane. Aside from that I didn't find anything of interest about him.

 

[funkman]

Thanks everyone! Great to have such helpful people on this site and for this hobby....KUDOS TO YOU ALL!!

nhbenz....would you happen to have a link to his info?

 

[nhbenz]

In the center column of this article, under Bankrupts: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/2636/page/255
The other articles I found from the same era which refer to him as cloth merchant were articles about his daughters marriage and about his Will and Testament, but had no info about the business itself.

 

[funkman]

thanks