German, Flour Bag Seal, Altona, H.W.LANGE & Co

German, Flour Bag Seal, H.W.LANGE & Co, Altona, Image & Found by Knut Finstad.
Found in South Norway, 22mm.

Crossed anchors H W L &Co in quadrants, ANKER curved down MEHL curved up around // H.W.LANGE & Co curved down / ALTONA straight across

From Paul Cannon, "From a better preserved example on a German auction site the word beneath the crossed anchors reads ‘MARKE’. Ankermarke means, I think, Anchor brand. The attached image of the mill came from another German site where it was being sold (“Oldthing”). This seems to list the various brands of flours they were producing, including ‘Anker’."

List of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Altona - "serial number 1209 - Grosse Elbstrasse 27 - Former port mill HW Lange, founded in 1841 as one of the first steam mills in northern Germany, massive brick buildings from 1880, later expanded and extended."

Museen Nord "Half-length portrait of the doctor Dr. Jacob Lange (23.8.1799-21.6.1873) with a black skirt and tie. He was a brother of the Uetersen mill owner Johann Peter Lange (1797-1854); until 1864 he shared a practice in Uetersen with his son-in-law Dr. Brodersen. Then he moved to Dresden, where his then wealthy brother Hinrich Wilhelm (1800-1875; founder of the mills at Neumühlen, near Kiel, and HW Lange & Co. at Altona and Reinbek) established an institution for the weak in the lungs (cf.written Message from Therese Völkel, great-granddaughter of Dr. Jacob Lange)."

For another Lange seal see BSG.BS.00790 and also Samaeldetect, Plomb de scellé à identifier "HW LANGE REINBECK".

For a seal from the other flour producing brother, J.P.Lange, see BSG.BS.02113.

Also recorded as IDS 2089 at The PeaceHavens Project - Seal Numbers 2000 - 2099 and The PeaceHavens Project - Crossed Anchor and Grapnel Bale Seals.