Seal - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Company

Made:
1830-1900 in unknown place
Seal - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Company Seal - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Company Stamp - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Co Ltd

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Seal - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Company
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Seal - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Company
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Stamp - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Co Ltd
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Musuem

Seal - Caterham and District Gas Light and Coke Company. Part of a collection of fifteen seals and thirteen stamps manufactured by gas companies that operated in the South East of England in the nineteenth century (from the counties of Kent, West Sussex, East Sussex and Surrey).

These seals and stamps would allow the gas companies to mark items as officially checked and tested or as belonging to the company.

Monuments to the Victorian and early-twentieth century gas industry in Britain are disappearing from our urban landscapes. Gas holders, once a familiar sight, described by the BBC as “sentinels of the industrial age,” are being dismantled to make way for property development. These small objects serve as a physical reminder of an industrial landscape that is vanishing.

Details

Category:
Gas Industry
Object Number:
2019-127
Materials:
metal (unknown)
Measurements:
overall: 26 mm 45 mm,
type:
seals
credit:
SEGAS Museum, Old Kent Road