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10 Cents Ragama store; type 2
| Issuer | The Ceylon Ice and Cold Storage Company |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Size | 127 x 83 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress in black and red on yellow paper. British Royal coat of arms at upper centre, with a purple hand stamp applied. Text arranged in multiple registers across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely blank, without printed design or text. |
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The Ceylon Ice and Cold Storage Company was a British colonial enterprise operating refrigerated storage and ice manufacture at Ragama, north of Colombo. Like other plantation-era firms in Ceylon, it issued small-denomination scrip to pay workers in a form redeemable only at the company's own store — a system that effectively tied wages to company-controlled prices and severely limited workers' economic mobility.
The distinction between type 1 and type 2 within this series most likely reflects a reprint with minor typographic or layout changes, a common occurrence when original stocks were exhausted faster than anticipated.