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MEDIEVAL MYSTERIES
Crafts and Guilds on Stamps
BAKER
The clay oven in the background, the nocturnal setting, the sacks of flour to the right, and the characteristic white hats, all point to the fact this is a bakery.
Bakers guilds were formed in Europe during the later Middle Ages, and as many as twenty different kinds of bread were available in Paris by the 13th century. In England, white breads were fare for the wealthy; the common folk, who baked their own, made do with rye.
