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1 Quart strawberry ticket; Alfred Justice
| Issuer | Alfred Justice |
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| Year | 1900-1940 |
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| Size | 51 x 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uniface letterpress ticket printed in black on red card stock. Four lines of text are centred on the face: the redemption clause at top, the denomination in bold uppercase, the issuer name, and a non-transferability notice at foot. No vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on the same red card stock as the obverse, with no text, vignette, or other markings. The surface shows age-related fibre texture consistent with the period. |
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Trade tokens and commodity scrip issued by individual farmers or produce merchants occupy a genuinely awkward category — not quite currency, not quite receipt, but functioning as both within a closed local economy. Alfred Justice's strawberry ticket allowed pickers or buyers to exchange labor or credit for measured produce without cash changing hands in the field, a common arrangement in American soft-fruit operations during the early twentieth century.
The issuer is untraced in standard references. That anonymity is itself typical of this genre — most were printed locally in small runs, discarded once the season ended.