Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Losonczer & Hatvaner Steam Mill in Losoncz
Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Losonczer & Hatvaner Steam Mill in Losoncz, Image by StuE, Found by Peeler.
Found on the Isle of Man.
One side has GOZMALOM curved down in the upper half and LOSONGZI curved up in the lower half.
The other side has LOSONGZER curved above and .MUHLE. curved below DAMPF which is written straight across the middle.
From Paul Cannon, "I believe this is a flour bag seal relating to the town of Losonc (Losoncz). Prior to 1918 Losonc was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire but at the end of WWI became part of Czechoslavakia. Today it is in Slovakia and has the name Lučenec and is close to the current border with Hungary. The following links to a detailed history of the town LOSONCZ, Posted by Lajos Bartha, extract (in Google translation) “Already at the end of the [18]60s Losoncz citizens founded two companies (1.textile works and 2.) ………. the “Losonczi Steam Mill” also joint stock basis’.
The inscriptions on the seal are a mixture of Hungarian and German and I think both faces have the same meaning ‘Losonc Steam Mill’:-
LOSONCZER / DAMPF / MÜHLE // LOSONCZI / GŐZMALOM"
The Losonczer & Hatvaner Steam Mill in Losoncz was identified from this newspaper article (see no.12) supplied by Paul Cannon:-
'The United States Miller and the Milling Engineer’, December 1891, p 184, cols 2 & 3. I have individually numbered each of the mills so as to make them more obvious.
Extract:- “The bakers are delighted with the action of the following sixteen firms who manufacture Hungarian flour and export it to England, namely
1.Concordia Steam Mill Co., Lim.;
2.Elizabeth Steam Mill Co.;
3.First Budapest Steam Mills Co., Lim. (Erste Ofen-Pester)
4.Gizella Steam Mills;
5.Henry Haggenmacher Steam Flour Mills, Budapest;
6.Louisa Steam Mill Co., Budapest (Hungary);
7.Pannonia Steam Flour Mills;
8.The Pesth Cylinder Flour Mill Co., Lim. (Pestihengermalom-társaság-Pester Walzmühl-Gesellschaft);
9.The Pester Millers and Bakers Steam Flour Mills Co., Lim., Budapest;
10.United Steam Mills of the Hungarian General Credit Bank;
11.”Victoria” Steam Mills, Budapest;
12.Losonczer und Hatvaner Dampfmühlen in Losoncz;
13.The Borsod Miskolcz Steam Flour Mill Co., Lim., in Miskolcz;
14.”István” Steam Mill Co., in Debreczen;
15.The Nagyvárad “Laszlo” Cylinder Flour Mill Co., Lim., in Nagyvárad;
16.The Szatmár Steam Mill Co., in Szatmár
who have reduced the number of their grades of flour and established a fresh standard, and in order to protect their new type flours they have as a body caused a conventional trade mark to be registered. The flour manufactured by the above named firms will consequently henceforth only be sold and supplied in sacks sealed with leads bearing the registered trade mark, which consists of the number of the grade of the flour surrounded by a triangle composed of three wheat ears on the side of which the letters M.T. are to be seen. The other side of the lead-seal is used to stamp the name of the firm who manufactured the flour.'
As this has no ear of wheat triangle and MT it must predate December 1891 when the article was published.