Hungarian, Flour Bag Seal, The Pester Millers and Bakers Steam Flour Mills Co., 00
Hungarian, Flour Bag Seals, Pester Millers and Bakers Steam Flour Mills, Joint Stock Company’, Image by StuE, Found by Blue_yeti.
Found in South East England, 19mm, 8.3g.
Button shaped seal with three lines across the middle DAMPF / ???& / (AG?) with inscription around PESTER (R?)OLLER (&?) BACKE(R?). The other side has 00.
In the style of Hungarian flour bag seals known from many different mills in Budapest and surrounding area.
From Paul Cannon, "I believe this seal has the following German inscription:
PESTER MÜLLER & BÄCKER
DAMPF
MÜHL[E]
AG [for Actien Gesellschaft]
This translates as ‘Pester Millers and Bakers Steam Flour Mills, Joint Stock Company’. It is no: 9 in the following list of Hungarian flour producers:
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.' "
This seal does not have the three wheat ears and letters M.T. on it, which indicates it precedes this change in 1891.