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1 Franc - Caisse Héritiers Georges Perrin Cornimont [88]
| Issuer | Héritiers Georges Perrin, Cornimont |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset emergency bon printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of interlaced foliate and geometric ornaments, with the issuer's name 'HÉRITIERS GEORGES PERRIN' set in bold capitals across the top and the location 'A CORNIMONT' to the right of the serial number. The denomination 'BON pour UN Fr.' is set in large bold type at centre, below which a three-line italic redemption clause appears, followed by a manuscript signature line and the date '4 Août 1914' at lower left. The note bears two handwritten signatures in violet ink and a green ink cancellation inscription 'annulé', alongside a small yellow-brown underprint numeral '1' at centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | HÉRITIERS GEORGES PERRIN N° 945 A CORNIMONT BON pour UN Fr. Cette somme est remboursable à la fin de la mobilisation ou des hostilités en cas de guerre, à la Caisse des Héritiers de Georges Perrin. Signature, 4 Août 1914 annulé |
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Cornimont is a small textile manufacturing town in the Vosges, and notes like this one proliferated across northeastern France in the weeks following the August 1914 mobilization, when the removal of working-age men and the hoarding of metal coinage caused immediate small-change paralysis at the local level. The Héritiers Georges Perrin — the heirs of a commercial or industrial concern — issued this emergency franc through what was essentially a private commercial guarantee, redeemable at their establishment rather than through any banking authority.
The JP reference places it within the vast Jérôme Picard documentation of French necessity notes, which catalogued hundreds of such emissions from individual firms, chambers of commerce, and municipal bodies. A watermark on paper this thin and informally produced is worth noting — it suggests the issuers sourced pre-watermarked stock rather than commissioning a purpose-printed security paper.