Amazing Historic Item Discovery!

I received an email out of the blue a couple of weeks ago. The sender, Alan, had purchased an job lot of items at auction. On opening a small wooden box, he found an item that turned out to be connected to the history of Balintore Castle. Naturally, I was overjoyed at his discovery, and asked for some photos.

Alan called the item a "wax stamp", but I suspect it is an "ink stamp" for headed notepaper, that would have been kept at the stationner's i.e. "Can you send me 200 more sheets of headed notepaper for the castle?". Written correspondence was much more of a thing historically. In the 1920's there were 13! postal collections a day in Blackpool, so mill-workers on holiday could exchange correspondence with friends at home, several times a day.

Your challenge is to identify the owner of the stamp, on the evidence of these photos alone.

The unexpectedly weird thing is that I think I have done it, despite the pretty illegible text. :-) I will reveal all in a later blog entry so you have time to do your own research. Perhaps you will come to a different conclusion?