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1 Mark Wohltätigkeitsbazar
| Issuer | Stadt Castrop (City of Castrop) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#224.1 |
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| Obverse lettering | EINE MARK GUTSCHEIN NUR GÜLTIG AUF DEM WOHLTÄTIGKEITSBAZAR IN CASTROP VOM 15. - 18. OKTOBER 1921 EINE MARK (Translation: ONE MARK VOUCHER ONLY VALID ON THE CHARITY BAZAAR IN CASTROP FROM OCTOBER 15-18, 1921 ONE MARK) |
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| Reverse lettering | WOHLTÄTIGKEITSBAZAR Zur schönen Zeit des Biedermeier Da war bei uns das Leben teuer, Die teure Zeit, die kam uns wieder; Nur ist der Meier nicht mehr --- bieder. CASTROP - 1921 Herta v. Gumppenberg München. J. Steinbach. (Translation: CHARITY BAZAAR In the beautiful time of the Biedermeier Life was expensive for us, The expensive time came again; Only the Meier is no longer --- honest. CASTROP - 1921 Herta v. Gumppenberg Munich. J. Steinbach.) |
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Castrop was a mid-sized Ruhr industrial town whose municipal notgeld program in 1921 extended well beyond emergency currency into something closer to civic promotion. This particular piece was issued specifically for a charity bazaar — a "Wohltätigkeitsbazar" — rather than through normal trade channels, which means its circulation was closed, brief, and geographically confined to a single event. That origin largely explains why surviving examples can appear either pristine or heavily handled, with little middle ground.
Herta von Gumppenberg was among a small group of women designers active in the Weimar-era notgeld scene, a detail the catalog number quietly obscures.