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1 Piece of Ice - Georges Berichon Montreal, Quebec
| Issuer | Georges Berichon |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | BON Nº 26322 UN MORCEAU DE GLACE GEORGES BERICHON WI. 2303 1461, rue BARRE Service d'Eté et d'Hiver G. BERICHON Nº 26322 |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing plain buff cardboard stock with a vertical perforated stub line visible near the right edge. |
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Ice tickets — issued by individual vendors to prepay delivery of a set quantity of ice — were a practical necessity in Canadian cities before mechanical refrigeration became universal in working-class homes. Berichon operated in Montreal's competitive ice trade, where dozens of small merchants issued similar cardboard tokens to lock in customers and simplify the delivery accounting. The thin cardboard format was universal among ice dealers; the tickets were punched or collected at delivery, and few survived in any quantity precisely because they were meant to be consumed in the transaction.