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1 Franc - Caisse Chagué and Cie Cornimont [88]
| Issuer | Chagué & Cie, Cornimont (Vosges) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse description | Plain blue-grey paper bon printed in black letterpress on a single face. A thin decorative border with foliate corner ornaments frames the note, with the issuer's name "CHAGUÉ & Cie à CORNIMONT (Vosges)" at the top in bold capitals. The denomination "BON pour UN Fr." is set in large display type at centre, above a two-line redemption clause and the handwritten series and number notation at upper left. A small floral vignette is centred at the lower margin, flanked by the denomination "1 F." at left, the date "5 Août 1914" at lower left, and a manuscript signature of Chagué & Cie at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Chagué & Cie was a textile manufacturer in Cornimont, a small mill town deep in the Vosges. When war was declared in August 1914 and coin disappeared almost overnight from circulation, factory owners across Alsace-Lorraine and the Vosges issued their own emergency fractional notes to pay workers and keep local commerce moving — the French government had not yet organized a formal small-denomination response. This note is one of those stopgap instruments, redeemable at the company cashier rather than any public institution.
The watermarked paper suggests the firm ordered printed stock rather than improvising on plain sheet, which places this among the more deliberately produced emergency issues of the region.