Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, VÁCZI HENGERMALOM, MT Wheat Ear Triangle 8
Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, MT Wheat Ear Triangle 8, Image & Found by Lancastrian
From the Yorks/Lancs border area.
3 ears of wheat forming a triangle with the number 8 in it's middle M & T are on the two upward sides and from another seal the letter G is probably along the bottom side. This seal has a totally different reverse side to the others. The letters VACZ- and HENGE can be seen.
From Paul Cannon, "I believe that both seals (this one and GERMALOM Bag Seal, Image & Found by Jif) relate to the same mill.
Both inscriptions are in the Hungarian language and I believe can be reconstructed as VÁCZI HENGERMALOM ie Vácz roller mill. Vác is a town in Hungary 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Budapest on the eastern bank of the Danube. The archaic spelling of the name is Vácz which is used on the seals. It is briefly mentioned in Irta Haraszthy Lajos’ article “Ipar, Kereskedelem, Hitelűgy es Forgalom” which states that the company, as Váczi hengermalom r. t. [where r.t. stands for Részvény Társaság, equivalent to Aktien Gesellschaft in German, ie Joint Stock Company] was founded in 1891 by Laszlo Rudnyánszky and others. The power came from 300 horse power steam engines and 75 workers were employed. Wheat and rye flours were produced in a mill covering over 12,000 square meters. Most of the products were exported to Austria, Bohemia and Moravia. The two seals found in Britain show that some of its flours also reached this country."
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