Object number
93/41
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Description
A sack for animal feed, marked 'Hasler's // Bounty Dairy Cubes // 112lbs Gross'. Hasler's was a firm in Dunmow, Essex, and the donor's brother farmed a smallholding in the nearby village of Barnston.
Physical description
1 sack: hessian[?]; good condition
Archival history
MERL ‘Handwritten accession’ form (Institute of Agricultural History) – ‘Standard museum name: SACK // Accession number: 93/41 // … // Recorder: JMB // Date: 6.9.93 // Description: Sack for animal feed // Inscription: HASLER’S // BOUNTY DAIRY CUBES // 112 lbs Gross // Dimensions: Animal feed sack from Hasler’s Dunmow, Essex. Used by the [donor’s] family // See attached letter.’, Letter, donor to MERL, 12 January 1983 – ‘Dear Mr. Brigden, // … // Herewith the sacks and such information as I can give. :– B.O.C.M. sack. I have an idea that the Mistley mill near Ipswich was originally Brooks and then taken over by B.O.C.M. In which case this probably came from my uncle’s farm, Sibton, Suffolk, after his death in about [19]49–50. My brother went to close down the farming operation. Later in the fifties my brother farmed an Essex County Council smallholding at Barnston near Dunmow. I imagine the seed and feed sacks from Haslers belong to that era. Haslers, Dunmow closed in the eighties. Just possibly some of them are earlier as we lived in the area, Great Waltham, before the war and often bought potatoes by the sack. After that they were always a popular packing material for inter family transfers and in our case more than one removal bringing them North when we retired form Dunmow in [19]84. Some have served their time for garden use as well // …’
Production place
Dunmow
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_16268.tif - High resolution image