European Vintage Grain Bag, Bearing Owner's Stamp

Clean white sack with a name stencilled in tall black letters and a date below.

This vintage linen grain bag bearing the owner's stamp is ca. 1900. Owners often marked their sacks with stamped or stenciled initials or names, so that bags could be identified after being sent to a mill or market. Long narrow sack in a pale off-white, with a loop of thread at the upper corner. Blackletter text reads M. Haufelt with a four-digit date underneath, and the weave is even and crisp. It is 21 inches wide and 49 long.

A signature that still looks fresh on the bag.