If you are a carnivore you’ve certainly appreciated things like a thick, medium-rare prime rib from a place like The Homestead at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, even though that cow grazes now only in the memories of those who’ve passed by or gone in under its jurisdiction.

Some time ago, in a place called Milwaukee, I worked at an ad agency where Sally’s Steak House, a high-end little nook in the Knickerbocker Hotel was a short walk from where we worked, so lunch there was often Sally’s Special, a filet mignon smothered in haystack style onion rings, along with french onion soup, ice cold vodka martinis and so on.

These days I’ve been more prone to bison and elk, but all in all we should remember that our favorite cuts are the careful work of folks called butchers.

In the UK in 2003 during the development of the HS1 rail link a butchery site was found near Kent that dated back over 400,000 years ago. The skeleton of a prehistoric elephant, about twice the size of today’s African variety, was found with a variety of flint tools including some that were lodged in its ribcage. The flint tools were sharp and an ideal shape for cutting through flesh and hide, so it is accepted that this is a very early example of humans engaging in butchery for animal meat with specific tools.

In today’s world the tools of the trade for butchers everywhere should include a set of butcher or meat locker rubber stamps.

Butcher stamps, also known as meat locker stamps, are essential for identifying clearly the various cuts of meat to be sold, once those cuts are wrapped in the traditional butcher paper.  We provide butcher stamps in small and large format for a variety of meat cuts, such as loin, brisket and round, and for a wide range of meat types including beef, pork, poultry, fish and a large selection also for increasingly popular types of meat such as elk, bison and wild game types. 

These top quality stamps are available in two distinct sizes. The Small size is set in 24 pt. font with 1/4″ characters and provides an impression up to 2″ wide. The Large versions offer a 32 pt. font, 5/16″ character size and provide an impression size up to 3″ wide.  In either size our butcher stamps make crisp, clean, bold impressions so meat processors can clearly identify, for fresh or frozen use, cuts such as chuck, rib, shoulder, flank and more.

Excellent working tools, our meat locker butcher stamps are perfect for supermarkets, butcher shops, deep freeze lockers or storage and processing plants. These durable, easy-to-use and long lasting stamps can be ordered as either self inking stamps, or wood mounted hand stamps for use with a separate pad, available as add-ons for the hand stamp selections.

So if you are clever with a cleaver, make sure you get set up with all the great impressions you want to make on the cuts you package, and that’s a wrap, if you’ll visit us soon…right here!