Title
A set of 29 AM & Co Stencils
Year/Period
20th Century
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: Please refer to parts
Accession No.
2021-00309
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs Salma Moiz
A.M.&Co was an Import & Export firm trading in spices, based in Malacca Street. The company had branches in Hong Kong, Colombo and even South Africa. This stencil and others like this were used to mark gani bags (sacks made of jute) holding goods that were shipped to one branc from another. This stencil would have been used to mark bags being shipped to Sri Lanka, South Africa and other trading ports.
