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1 Cent - Fisher Foods Belford Heights, Ohio
| Issuer | Fisher Foods |
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| Size | 91 x 62 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | FISHER FOOD STAMP 1c REDEEMABLE UNDER FEDERAL FOOD PROGRAM at FISHER FOODS |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on light green paper with a dense crosshatch guilloche underprint overall, showing bleed-through of the obverse design. A handwritten collector notation in ink appears at lower right, referencing Belford Heights, OH. |
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Fisher Foods was a Cleveland-based supermarket chain that operated primarily across northeastern Ohio from the 1930s through the 1980s. Trade tokens and scrip of this kind were issued by individual store locations — Belford Heights being one of the smaller suburban outlets — typically to handle fractional change in promotional contexts or as courtesy scrip for in-store use, bypassing the need to return actual coinage.
Whether this specific piece circulated broadly or sat largely unused in a cash drawer is the more interesting question. Store-level scrip from regional grocers rarely survived in quantity.