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Description: | Cast lead two-part bag seal, used for flour, made up of two circular discs joined by a rectangular connecting strip. One disc has the initials 'H T P' with 'Co' to the side and 'Ltd' below, embossed on its face, which refers to the company "Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinghorne". The opposite disc has the letters 'X R W' embossed on its face which, if it had been 'J R W', might have referred to their first initials, but this is unlikely. In 1852, William Hosken of Carwin Farm, Phillack commenced milling at Loggans, a mill still standing, bearing the date 1852 on its south gable. It became the largest milling firm in Hayle and in 1890 joined with Richard Trevithick, grandson of the famous innovator and a Truro based miller, J.S.Polkinghorne to form the partnership "Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinghorne", the initials of which "HTP" were to become a household word for flour throughout the west of Britain. In 1895 the firm acquired Harvey's ironmongery store and commenced making its renowned "Cornubia" biscuits. By 1913 the partnership owned a large farm, 50 horses, 3 traction engines, various lorries and its own "Liverpool & Bristol Steamship Company", whose "Cornubia" and "M.S.Hedley" brought the wheat for Loggans Mill, via a canal excavated at the edge of Copperhouse Pool, to the Copperhouse wharf. It was at the time the largest wholesale grocer South West of Bristol. However by 1927 the manufacture of Cornubia biscuits in the foundry had ceased, for during the 1890s the company had acquired a mill in Plymouth, and further rationalisation led in 1930 to the closure of the Loggans Mill and the company's centralisation in Plymouth.
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