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1 Franken Saint Gobain
| Issuer | Actien-Gesellschaft der Spiegelmanufacturen und Chemischen Fabriken von St. Gobain, Chauny & Cirey, Zweigniederlassung Stolberg |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Printer | H. Willmars, Stolberg Rhl. |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on cream paper, the face carries a guilloche-enriched border enclosing the large central legend 'Gutschein für Lebensmittel im Werte von Ein franz. Franken' in bold letterpress. An octagonal vignette at lower left contains an allegorical scene of putti or workers with industrial implements, captioned 'STOLBERG', while a boxed numeral '1' with the inscription 'FRANKEN' occupies the upper right corner. The lower half bears the issuing authority's text, the date 'Stolberg, Rhld. den 6. Februar 1924', and two manuscript signatures of company representatives. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and blank, showing only the show-through impression of the obverse text and the brickwork watermark pattern visible in the cream-white paper stock. |
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Saint-Gobain's Stolberg branch — part of the French glassmaking and chemicals giant that traces its origins to a 1665 royal monopoly — issued this 1 Franken note during the Rhineland occupation period, when the region's peculiar status under Allied control created genuine ambiguity about which currency should circulate. Denominating in francs rather than marks was a practical acknowledgment of that reality, not a political statement.
H. Willmars printed this locally in Stolberg, a detail worth noting given that many Rhineland emergency issues of this period were farmed out to larger presses. The watermarked paper suggests a more deliberate production than typical notgeld.