Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Concordia Steam Mill Co., 0
Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Concordia, Image & Found by Popsandme.
CONCORDIA DAMPFMüHLE around the outside with PEST across the middle. Other side has number 0 on it. A flour bag seal with grade 0 flour in it:- "Flour used to be categorised into '00', '0', '1' and '2' grades, '00' being the finest and whitest and working down to the almost wholemeal grade '2' flour." From Flour Of Italy.
'Pest is the old German name for Budapest (Hungary) and in the late 19th/early 20 century there were several steam mills in or nearby Budapest along the Danube river.'
Folkert
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.
From Philippe Lanez, EUROPEAN ROUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE, "In the 1870s Budapest was the largest flour-producing city in Europe, and was second in the world after Minneapolis. Some 13 flour mills were established in Pest in the 1860s, most of them in the Ferencvaros area which came to be called the ‘stomach of Budapest’. All used the system of roller-milling, originally invented at Frauenfeld in Switzerland in 1833-34 by Jacob Sulzberger, and developed in Hungary by the Swiss Abrahan Ganz (1814-1867) and the German Andras Mechwart (1834-1907), who worked for Ganz from 1859 and directed the Ganz foundry from 1867.The first steam-powered roller mill in Budapest, Henger Malom, began work on 15 September 1841. The Concordia mill was built in Pest in 1867 and was active until 1929. Alongside it stood a lofty elevator built in 1883 but demolished as unsafe in 1948.
The five-storey Concordia mill became a museum that showed the development of the grinding and sieving machinery used in wind and water mills, and the introduction of the Ganz-Mechwart chilled iron rollers. The museum has closed, although the collection has been put into store. The building remains but has been adapted as apartments."