Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Concordia Steam Mill Co., 3
Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Concordia Pest Seal, Image & Found by Bilox.
Came from around Wetherby / Goldsboro / Knaresbough area, , 19.4 x 18.9mm, 9.1g.
CONC[CO]RDIA DAMPF MüHLEN around the outside with PEST across the middle. Other side has number 3 on it.
A flour bag seal with grade 3 flour (course) in it.
Pest is the old German name for Budapest (Hungary) and in the late 19th/early 20 century there were several steam mills in or nearby Budapest along the Danube river.
Folkert
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
Seal of the same type with number 5 instead of 3 was found in Newcastle by Dean Hindmarsh.
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