Comments on: Bread Stamps https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/ Home baking, professional results Sun, 10 May 2026 22:59:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Max https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-740 Sun, 10 May 2026 22:59:44 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-740 The famous bread with the stamp is not found in Pompeii, but in Herculaneum (Casa dei Cervi/House of the Stags/House of the Deers).

]]> By: Mike https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-324 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:57:35 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-324 In reply to Jon Townsend.

Interesting!

]]> By: Jon Townsend https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-323 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:32:51 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-323 18th-century bakers in Great Britain and colonies also had to mark their bread by law with the type of bread and their initials. I haven’t seen any examples but I am guessing it was done the same way.

]]> By: Mike https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-280 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:51:31 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-280 In reply to Luc.

Great information Luc and thanks for taking the time to write. I am very interested in finding out more about these stamps. Since I wrote this article, I got 2 more stamps but they are more typical for the Byzantine period. If you have connections to an archeologist that may know more, please do send him the pictures. If you need more detailed pictures from more angles, I am happy to give you that too. I would love to learn more about it.

]]> By: Luc https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-279 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:20:07 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-279 Hey Mike, I found your article during my research for bread stamps. Thank you I found it interesting and – inspiriting. You owe interesting examples in your collection – the bronze matrix with an dolphin looks familiar to me. Dolphin was important symbolic figure in Ancient Greece culture, that had connection to god Apollo variation – Dolphinos, especially for Milet polis and it’s colonies. In contemporary Ukraine, on the coast of Black Sea there was an colony Olbia (Greek “the Lucky One”), where all visual culture and early monetary system (IX-V centuries b.C.) was based on dolphins cast from bronze. Even coins were not round, but little dolphins sculptures. I have one in my collection – my intuition says it may be not Byzantine, but few centuries older – perhaps Olbian.
If you allow me to, or you would like to do it by yourself – you can send pictures of your stamp to archeologists (main universities and museums that specialize in Olbia are based in Warsaw, Petersburg, Berlin and Kiev). It may be interesting artifact if it is an original one (I am sure 99%, it is), I had never seen such one with dolphin before.

Best of luck, and thank you again – you wrote very interesting article.
Best regards from Poland.
Luc

]]> By: Michael Glover https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-276 Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:03:11 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-276 Neat subject. Makes sense to use an indentifer in a communal oven, much like branding cattle. I love bread, and bread history.

]]> By: John https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-264 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:36:49 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-264 In reply to Mike.

Don’t have a site or copy of stamp. I’m relying on my age (86) and memory. Still trying to locate a picture of one.

]]> By: Mike https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-263 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:55:33 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-263 In reply to John.

I’ve never seen paper stamps on Jewish Rye bread. Do you have a link to an image of one? Sounds interesting.

]]> By: John https://wheatbeat.com/bread-stamps/#comment-262 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:21:17 +0000 https://wheatbeat.com/?p=2240#comment-262 Were those type stamps replaced by paper stamps that I recall on Jewish Rye loaves?

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