Russian, (Latvian), Liepāja, Berend & Co Seal, Image & Found by Taneli Leinonen.
Found in Loppi, southern Finland, 18mm.
Sch.M // BEREND & Co, MALMÜHLE...
Identified by Philippe Lanez and Anssi Puisto.
Flour bag seal from Berend & Co mill in Liepāja, Latvia.
"In the 1880s and 1890s, several specific production units were built in Jaunliepāja. In 1880, a merchant Löwenthal from Liepāja built a grain mill on the corner of Aleksandra and Tirgus iela, but the Prussian businessman Siegfried Berend, in cooperation with a company Krakau und Hesse from Berlin, built a steam mill on Preču iela 64, next to the railway. Company Berend & Co built a compact six-storey steam mill building to the Berlin’s architect Karl Hesse project. It was the largest such company in Kurzeme. Annually it processed from 12,000 to 15,000 tons of corn and produced flour, bran, pearl-barley and grits for export." From The Development of Industry and Jaunliepāja in the 19th Century, Silvija Ozola, 2011, Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University, Architecture and Urban Planning, p.42.
