Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Budapest Roller-Mill, 000
Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Pesti, Image & Found by Dave8472.
Found in Old Bexley in Kent, 16 x 15mm.
One side has PESTI curving downward along the top HENGER straight across the middle and MALOM curving upwards along the bottom. The other side has has three O's two above the third all in a circular border.
This is a flour bag seal (grade 000 flour) from a roller-mill (henger-malom) in Budapest (Pesti) in Hungary which has a long history of mechanised flour mills.
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. -
"The first modern mechanized flour mill, Pesti Henger-malom Tàrsasàg, was established in 1838." from 'History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century'
By Ivan T. Berend.