BSG.BS.00504 — German, Sugar Bag Seal, Prancing Horse, Frellstedt

Found next to the village of Modbury, Devon, 18mm.

FREL(L)STEDT, star above and below, HERZOGL.ZUCKERSTEUERSTELLE around // Horse prancing, crown above

A German sugar bag seal. Zucker Steuerstelle = sugar controls in German. Frellstedt is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

From Paul Cannon:- "The inscriptions are particularly clear: HERZOGL. [Herzoglich] = Ducal ZUCKERSTEUERSTELLE = Sugar tax controls/agency FRELLSTEDT

The prancing horse is the standard of the Dukes of Brunswick.

For a document relating to this sugar refinery see FRELLSTEDT, Brief 1917, Norddeutsche Zucker-Raffinerie This shows that the sugar refinery at Frellstedt was in ‘Herzogtum Braunschweig’ ie the Duchy of Brunswick and hence the use of the adjective on the seal itself. Presumably the Dukes collected and benefited from the sugar taxes.

In the German directory ‘Verzeichnis der R übenzuckerfabriken und Zucker-Raffinerien im deutschen Reiche’ (1900), Frellstedt is listed as a sugar refinery see Verzeichnis der Zuckerfabriken und Raffinerien Deutschlands und des Auslandes (1900) (no: 14 p130)."