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10 Jin - Meat Stamp Wusheng County, Sichuan
| Issuer | Wusheng County Food Company (武胜食品公司), Sichuan |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text and stamps printed in red. The title inscription runs across the top in large characters. To the left, a rectangular official stamp of the Wusheng County Food Company bears the issue date 1979; at centre, a circular red seal with a five-pointed star; to the right, the denomination 壹拾斤 in bold characters within a lightly printed oval underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly plain cream paper. Verso bears faint bleed-through impressions from the obverse stamps, with a red rectangular official chop visible at right and a small red inscription at upper centre, otherwise unprinted. |
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Meat ration coupons of this type were issued by county-level food companies across Sichuan following the state's tightening of pork distribution controls in the late 1970s. The Wusheng County Food Company (武胜食品公司) operated under the provincial commercial bureau, and these local coupons were non-transferable outside the issuing county — a deliberate administrative containment that made inter-county movement of rationed goods a punishable infraction.
County-printed coupons from this period were typically produced on whatever stock was available locally, which accounts for the significant variation in paper weight and print quality seen across the Sichuan series. Wusheng examples tend to show uneven ink saturation from low-pressure letterpress equipment.