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1 Pint of Milk - Henri Bélanger Quebec City
| Issuer | Henri Bélanger (dairy, Quebec City) |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Size | 62 x 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain red paper token with rounded corners, printed in black letterpress. A simple rectangular border with small cross ornaments at each corner frames all text. The denomination "Chopine de Lait" appears in large script lettering at centre, above the issuer name and address. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely plain red paper, unprinted, showing the natural texture and slight mottling of the stock. |
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Henri Bélanger operated a small dairy in Quebec City in the postwar period, and tokens of this kind — printed on colored paper stock and issued directly by the dairy — were a practical solution to the deposit-and-return system for glass bottles. The color coding, red here, typically distinguished pint denominations from quart or half-pint equivalents within the same dairy's internal system, reducing errors at the doorstep.
These ephemeral dairy chits were never intended to outlast a single transaction. That any survive at all is largely accidental.