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1 Cent - Mad Butcher Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Mad Butcher |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 1C 1C FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at MAD BUTCHER 1900 W. Lake St. Chicago, Illinois ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1C 1C |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with an all-over woven geometric underprint, unprinted and bearing no text or vignette. |
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Mad Butcher was a discount meat retail chain that operated across the American Midwest, and like many regional grocery and specialty food retailers of the mid-twentieth century, it issued its own scrip as a promotional device — typically redeemable for merchandise or used as change-equivalent tokens to encourage return visits. These cents-denomination paper issues exist in a gray zone between trade coupon and true scrip, and serious collectors of American obsolete and merchant paper tend to treat them accordingly.
Chicago's long history as the center of the American meatpacking industry gives this piece a certain regional coherence, at least.