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1 Mark Bremer Woll-Kämmerei
| Issuer | Bremer Woll-Kämmerei (Bremen Wool Combing Company), Blumenthal |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | No 4700 Serie 4. Gut für eine Mark Einzulösen bis 1. September 1914. Im Lohn-Kontor der Bremer Woll-Kämmerei. Auf der Rückseite vom Lohnempfänger mit Angabe der Fabriknummer zu unterschreiben. Blumenthal (Hann.), den 26. Aug. 1914. |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse with minimal printed text in letterpress, divided by a horizontal dotted rule. Two lines provide spaces for the wage recipient's signature and factory number to be completed by hand, functioning as a bearer endorsement. |
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Bremer Woll-Kämmerei was one of the largest wool combing operations in continental Europe, and when the Reichsbank's coin hoarding crisis hit in August 1914, the company issued its own emergency scrip to keep wages moving on the factory floor. This is Notgeld in its most functional, unglamorous form — a private industrial employer filling a gap the state briefly couldn't.
Blumenthal, at the time an independent municipality north of Bremen and not yet incorporated into it, had a substantial working-class population almost entirely dependent on the mill. The rubber stamp authentication was the company's only real security measure against forgery.