Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Elisabeth Steam Mill, Image & Found by JoeCovenantLamb.
Found near Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 20mm.
(ELISAB)ETH DAM(PF)MUHL / GESELL(SC)HAFT curving downward in two lines at the top and (B)UDAPEST curving upwards at the bottom. The other side shows an anchor.
Translation of the German gives Elisabeth Steam-mill Society. Several newspaper adverts give the address as Budapest (Ungarn) - Aftenpolten 1884 p.3 and Die Mahrheit 1912 p.10
The first is actually a Scandinavian newspaper.
Translation by Danzigman - "Evening post ( like a newspaper that hit the street in evening "evening standard" ) Saturday 11 October 1884.
Elizabeth (Text in German) Steam mill society.. (Like a shareholding company with mills)Budapest Hungary..
Rewarded at all Larger exhibitions - recommend
King´s flour, baking flour, and Household flour,
In stock at Ivar Rogne.
(Actually I think the newspaper could be issued in Norway - in Danish .. Stamped on it is CHRISTANIA BÖRS.. - Meaning - Christiania Stock. (Christania is also a city in Norway now called Oslo.)"
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.
