German, Sugar Bag Seal, Prancing Horse, Frellstedt
German, Sugar Bag Seal, Image & Found by Hoarder.
Found next to the village of Modbury, Devon, 18mm.
FREL(L)STEDT, star above and below, HERZOGL.ZUCKERSTEUERSTELLE around // Horse prancing, crown above
A German sugar bag seal. Zucker Steuerstelle = sugar controls in German. Frellstedt is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
From Paul Cannon:-
"The inscriptions are particularly clear:
HERZOGL. [Herzoglich] = Ducal
ZUCKERSTEUERSTELLE = Sugar tax controls/agency
FRELLSTEDT
The prancing horse is the standard of the Dukes of Brunswick.
For a document relating to this sugar refinery see FRELLSTEDT, Brief 1917, Norddeutsche Zucker-Raffinerie This shows that the sugar refinery at Frellstedt was in ‘Herzogtum Braunschweig’ ie the Duchy of Brunswick and hence the use of the adjective on the seal itself. Presumably the Dukes collected and benefited from the sugar taxes.
