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[[File:Polisch Odessa.png|thumb|upright=1.5|"Polish Odessa" (or "Polisch Odessa") in 19th-century British, French, Belgian and German press]]
When looking for the oldest possible anchor pointpoints, I discovered that west European press, starting in the first half of the 19th century, often used the phrase "Polish Odessa" (also spelled "Polisch Odessa"), which is quite surprising when you consider that Odessa was never a Polish city. It turns out, however, that this was the name used for the wheat imported from what is now western Ukraine.
This is how Polish wheat varieties were described in a French book on grain trade from 1910: