European Vintage Grain Bag, Bearing Owner's Stamp

One bold navy stripe and a ghostly gray name that is mostly keeping to itself.

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. Narrow cream sack with a single dark blue stripe down the center. Faded gray stencil lettering reads like a name and town, only partly legible, above a plain, finely woven field. It is 20.5 inches wide and 52 long.

Faint text, firm stripe, no regrets.