Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, Concordia Steam Mill Co., 0

Hungarian Flour Bag Seal, Concordia Pest, Image by StuE, Found by Ged.
Found in Wetherby / Goldsboro / Knaresbough area, 20.6 x 18.6mm, 8.8g.

CONCCORDIA DAMPFMüHLE around the outside with PEST across the middle. Other side has number 0 on it. A flour bag seal with grade 0 flour in it:- "Flour used to be categorised into '00', '0', '1' and '2' grades, '00' being the finest and whitest and working down to the almost wholemeal grade '2' flour." From Flour Of Italy.

'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.