Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Big loaf
| Issuer | S.M. Vooruit, Gent |
|---|---|
| Year | 1956 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 45 x 34 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in aged beige-tan card stock with no design elements. The obverse carries letterpress text in three blocks: the issuer header "S.M. VOORUIT - GENT / NIEUWE VAART, 286 / BAKKERIJ - Tel.: 26.34.80", a central denomination legend "Goed voor 1 groot brood" divided by a rule, dated "1/7/56", all overlaid by a handstamp bearing the signature of George Nachez. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | George Nachez |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Vooruit ("Forward") was the flagship cooperative of the Belgian socialist movement, and its Ghent operation — bakery, pharmacy, textile shop, pharmacy — issued internal bread tokens and vouchers for decades as a practical extension of the cooperative economy. This small paper chit, redeemable for one large loaf, functioned as a purchasing voucher within that closed system rather than as currency in any legal sense. The signature of George Nachez presumably identifies a board member or administrator responsible for that issue run.
By 1956 the cooperative was well past its organizational peak. These late-period vouchers rarely survived — bread tokens got used and discarded.