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10 Pfennig Labora-Gesellschaft
| Issuer | Labora-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Friedenau |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on cream paper throughout, with a dense guilloche mesh underprint covering the entire surface. At left, a detachable stub panel bears a central four-pointed star vignette above the text 'Inliegend 10 Pfg. Marke', separated from the main note by a perforation line. The main panel carries the large ornate gothic-script title 'Not-Geldschein über 10 Zehn Pfennig' across the upper portion, with a framed text panel below stating the validity condition and the issuer's name 'LABORA-GESELLSCHAFT BERLIN-FRIEDENAU', followed by a further panel reading 'Rückseite beachten' and the notice 'Gesetzlich geschützt' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Handschuhe · Krawatten CARL SCHAPSKI BERLIN W LUFTKURORT WEISSER HIRSCH Das ganze Jahr geöffnet! Trinkt Kahlbaum-Liköre! SCHAUBURG-LICHTSPIELE am Potsdamer Platz UNION-BAR – BERLIN W 5-Uhr-Tee Kurfürstendamm Richard Ludwig · Berlin · Puttkamerstraße 19 Lithographische Kunstanstalt/Buch- u. Steindruckerei ZIGARREN · ZIGARETTEN · TABAK F. BOCK, BERLIN C., Münzstraße 5 GEMÄLDE RADIERUNGEN DAHLMANN Einkauf MÖBEL Verkauf K. TALAUER, Neukölln, Goethestr. 3 Feinkost H. BERG Gemüse Obst Berlin W., Tauentzienstr. Fische Neueste Muster Riesen-Auswahl TAPETEN KAUFHAUS AM ZOO Schuhwaren R. MEISNER |
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Labora-Gesellschaft was a Berlin-based consumer cooperative that issued its own small-denomination paper scrip — a practice common among German worker and cooperative organizations in the early twentieth century, particularly before and during the First World War when metallic coinage disappeared from everyday transactions. Friedenau, then still an independent municipality south of Berlin, had a notably active cooperative culture before its absorption into Greater Berlin in 1920.
Richard Ludwig's lithographic workshop in Berlin produced a significant volume of this kind of local scrip, making attribution of individual issues straightforward where printer credits survive.