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1 brood pain - Vooruit
| Issuer | Samenwerkende Maatschappij Vooruit, Gent |
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| Size | 44 x 30 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain unframed ticket printed in black on brown card stock. Issuer name across the top, city name at left with a small decorative snowflake ornament below. Large numeral '1' in the centre with a serial number to its right. Redemption inscription across the lower portion with a small handstamp at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain brown card stock reverse with no printed design. Faint bleed-through impressions of the obverse letterpress text are visible through the thin stock, along with what appears to be a partial handwritten or stamped annotation. |
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Vooruit — "Forward" — was the flagship cooperative of the Flemish socialist movement, founded in Ghent in 1880. Its bakery operation became one of the largest in Belgium, and the cooperative issued its own bread tokens to members, bypassing commercial retailers entirely. This "1 brood" pain token is part of that internal exchange system: not currency in any legal sense, but functionally indistinguishable from scrip within the cooperative's ecosystem.
The extreme small size is characteristic of Vooruit's bread tokens, which were produced cheaply and in bulk. Many were discarded after redemption, making intact survivors more common in collector holdings than in any archival record.