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1/2 Mark Harry Trüller
| Issuer | Harry Trüller, Celle (Zwieback-, Waffel- und Keksfabriken) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light blue and cream Notgeld voucher printed on a fine guilloche underprint ground, with the issuer's name 'Harry Trüller, Celle' and trade designation 'Zwieback-, Waffel- und Keksfabriken' set in Gothic blackletter across the upper field, flanking a central coat-of-arms vignette. The denomination 'Gutschein über Eine halbe Mark' is rendered in large Gothic script at centre, with circular medallions bearing '1/2 Mark' at left and right. A serial number appears at lower left and the issuer's manuscript signature at lower centre. |
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| Signature(s) | Harry Trüller |
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Harry Trüller's Celle bakery — specializing in Zwieback, waffles, and biscuits — issued this half-Mark note in 1918 as private emergency money (Notgeld) during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the final year of the war. Firms of all kinds were legally permitted to issue such scrip for local circulation, redeemable only at the issuing business. Gebr. Parcus in Munich, one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handled production for dozens of similar commercial issuers across the country.
The single signature of Harry Trüller himself gives the note an unusually personal character for what is essentially a wartime workaround.