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1 Cent - Food Stamp Scrip Printers Blank Chicago, Illinois
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| Year | 1960-1970 |
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| Size | 92 x 51 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with a fine guilloche underprint. A central vignette shows a heraldic shield with five stars and vertical stripes, flanked by laurel branches. The denomination numeral '1' appears in each corner within circular cartouches, with letterpress legends 'OFFICIAL FOOD COUPON' at left and 'ONE CENT' at right. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted yellow reverse with a fine geometric guilloche underprint overall, showing a faint ghost impression of the obverse legends visible through the thin paper stock. No text or vignette is present. |
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Food stamp scrip of this type was produced by several small Chicago-area printers as promotional or test material — blanks intended for use in coupon redemption systems, trading stamp programs, or institutional meal plans rather than any government food assistance program. The federal food stamp program, formally established in 1964, operated through perforated booklets issued by USDA, not loose scrip of this format.
Printers' blanks without issuing authority text exist because buyers — schools, company cafeterias, church programs — would supply their own imprint details after ordering base stock. This example never received one.