European Vintage Grain Bag, Bearing Owner's Stamp

Narrow cream sack stencilled with a name, a town, and a tidy sprig of leaves.

This vintage linen grain bag bearing the owner's stamp is ca. 1900. In rural Europe, grain was long stored and carried in sacks of hand-woven linen or hemp, which were durable and could be mended and reused. Lofty rectangular sack with a loose string tie at one corner. Black Gothic lettering reads Eduard Thomas in Bibra, above a small sprig of leaves, and the weave is plain and lightly creased. It is 18 inches wide and 38 long.

A mailing address for a bag of grain.