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1 Cent - Food Stamp Scrip Williams 7 To 11 Market
| Issuer | Williams 7 To 11 Market |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellow stock printed in dark blue letterpress throughout, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche ornament. The face is arranged in a bordered grid: corner panels carry the denomination numeral '1c' at each angle, the store name 'Williams 7 To 11 Market' is set in bold type at centre, and vertical side panels bear the repeated legend 'Food Stamp Program / Certificate of Credit' in rotated text. Upper and lower horizontal panels carry the redemption clause and the authorised merchandise statement under the U.S.D.A. Food Stamp Program respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1c 1c CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT — REDEEMABLE FOR AUTHORIZED MERCHANDISE ONLY AT INDICATED STORE Food Stamp Program CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT Food Stamp Program CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT Williams 7 To 11 Market GOOD FOR .01¢ IN AUTHORIZED MERCHANDISE UNDER U.S.D.A. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM ONLY 1c 1c |
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American grocery scrip of this type was typically issued by independent retailers during the mid-twentieth century to manage change-making at the register or to encourage repeat custom — a 1-cent denomination suggests the latter, functioning more as a loyalty token than a transactional instrument. Williams 7 To 11 Markets were small-format convenience and grocery operations, and scrip of this kind was never regulated at the federal level, meaning issuance quantities and redemption records were kept, if at all, entirely at the store level.
Survival is almost entirely accidental — most examples were redeemed, lost, or discarded.