Flour Bag Seal, MT Wheat Ear Triangle 8, Concordia Steam Mill Co., Image & Found by BobHoe.
"The club outing on Sunday must have turned up something like 40 bag seals! This is my best one. The word in the middle is 'GOZMALO', any ideas where that originates?
GOZMALO appears to be Spanish!"
Triangle formed from 3 stems of corn with figure 8 in the middle.
From GreatDane - I think it´s a German flour bag seal !!!
I can see the German word: Dampfmühle = Steam mill
Triangle formed by three ears of cereal along the left stem is the letter M, along the right stem is the letter T and under the base stem is the letter G. at the centre of the triangle is the number 8.
The writing on the other side has been deciphered with the help of other seals:- CONCORDIA is curved along the top with GOZMALOM (steam mill in Hungarian) curved upwards below that. In the centre are the initials RT curved downwards below this is DAMPFMUL A.G. and finally curved at the very bottom edge is BUDAPEST. DAMPF MUHLEN A.G. suggest a German steam mill manufacturer - see here and Szczecin iron foundry which was also known as Stettiner Dampf-Muhlen AG.
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 main 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. From Historical Text Archive - Austria-Hungary and Poland, A Short History of.
