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1 Tap Beer - Branch St. Retreat Middleton, Wisconsin
| Issuer | Brice P's Branch St. Retreat |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground with all text printed in purple letterpress. The word COUPON appears at the top in block capitals, followed by the redemption legend in large bold type across the centre field. The issuer's logo — combining block and script lettering for "Brice P's Branch St. Retreat" — occupies the lower centre, with address and telephone details below. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely blank white paper with no printed design, lettering, or security features. |
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Wisconsin tavern trade tokens and scrip occupy a narrow but well-documented collecting niche, and bar-issued paper good-for notes like this one from Brice P's Branch St. Retreat sit at the informal end of that spectrum. Middleton, a small city immediately west of Madison, supported a tight cluster of neighborhood bars through the mid-to-late twentieth century, and proprietary drink scrip of this kind was typically printed locally in short runs — sometimes by the same shop handling menus and business cards.
No central registry governs this material. Survival depends entirely on whether a former patron kept one in a wallet or drawer.