Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Budapest Roller-Mill, MT Wheat Ear Triangle 5

Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Budapest Roller-Mill, MT Wheat Ear Triangle 5, Image & Found by Peter Molnar.
Found in Hungary, 17mm, 6.7g.

PESTI / HENGER / MALOM // 5 in triangle of wheat ears M (T) to sides

This is a flour bag seal (grade 5 flour) from a roller-mill (henger-malom) in Budapest (Pesti) in Hungary.

The principal industry of Hungary is flour-milling. The number of steam-mills, which in 1867 was about 150, rose to 1723 in 1895 and to 1845 in 1905. Between 3,000,000 and 3,200,000 tons of wheat-flour are produced annually. The principal steam-mills are at Budapest; large steam-mills are also established in many towns, while there are a great number of water-mills and some wind-mills. The products of these mills form the principal article of export of Hungary. [From Historical Text Archive - Austria-Hungary and Poland, A Short History of]

"The first modern mechanized flour mill, Pesti Henger-malom Tàrsasàg, was established in 1838." [from 'History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century' by Ivan T. Berend]