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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Oelde (City of Oelde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown, black, teal, and red on cream paper, with an ornate scrollwork border enclosing the entire design. At centre, the municipal arms of Oelde — a blue shield bearing a nine-pointed star above a crescent moon — form the dominant motif, flanked by two circular vignettes: at left, a Gothic church tower, and at right, a traditional windmill, each overlaid with a large red numeral '1'. The heading 'Gutschein der Stadt Oelde' appears in bold Gothic lettering at top, with 'EINE MARK' set in large display type at foot, and the issuance line 'Oelde, den 7. Dezember 1920. Die Stadtverwaltung' accompanied by a manuscript signature along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Oelde Eine Mark Oelde, den 7. Dezember 1920. Die Stadtverwaltung Wo willst du hin Den Oelder Wind ja habe acht mit dem Oelder Wind? der hat die Polizei in Pacht! |
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Oelde is a small Westphalian town, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipal authorities between 1919 and 1922 — when the central government's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage forced cities and towns to print their own. At the 1 Mark level, these circulated hard among local merchants and were rarely saved by recipients who had no interest in collecting.
The designer credit to O. Sturm is notable mainly because most Notgeld of this scale went unsigned or credited to the printing house. Whether Sturm was a local commercial artist or an employee of the Oelde printer is not documented in the standard references.