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1 Krone Brunn am Gebirge; Civilian Islands
| Issuer | K. u. k. Gewerbelager Brunn am Gebirge (Imperial and Royal Camp Warehouse Brunn am Gebirge) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red letterpress on cream fibrous paper with a fine curvilinear underprint throughout. The left panel, framed by a diamond-pattern guilloche border, carries the denomination in German (KRONE) and Cyrillic (КОРОНА) flanking the large numeral '1', with a black-printed serial number below. The right panel bears the Austro-Hungarian imperial arms as a vignette at upper centre, flanked by the issuing authority 'K. u. k. Gewerbelager' and 'Brunn am Gebirge', above the bold legend 'GUTSCHEIN FÜR EINE KRONE' and multi-line restrictive and administrative inscriptions, with the facsimile titles and names of the Administrative Officer (Puskás) and Camp Commander (Popletsan) at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper with a fibrous texture visible throughout; faint show-through of the obverse letterpress printing is discernible. No design, text, or ornamental elements are present on this face. |
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Brunn am Gebirge, a small industrial town south of Vienna, hosted one of the Austro-Hungarian military's Gewerbelager — essentially a combined prisoner-of-war labor facility and internal camp supply system. The scrip issued there circulated only within the camp economy, preventing Austrian currency from reaching POW hands and then leaking back into the broader wartime monetary system. The "Civilian Islands" designation in collector nomenclature refers to non-military internment populations, a category that expanded dramatically after 1915 as Austria-Hungary relocated ethnic minorities and suspected enemy sympathizers from border regions.
Camp scrip of this type was typically printed in very small runs with minimal security features. Survival rates are low — most was deliberately destroyed or simply disintegrated.