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2 Beers voucher Victorian detachment
| Issuer | Army Canteens Service |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress print on light blue-grey tinted paper with a fine guilloche underprint. The issuer inscription appears at top in spaced capitals, with 'Victorian Detachment' in bold italic below; 'BEER ISSUE' in large bold sans-serif type occupies the lower left, with the numeral '2' in a large bold typeface to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ARMY CANTEENS SERVICE Victorian Detachment BEER ISSUE 2 |
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Army canteen vouchers of this type were issued to British soldiers as a rationing mechanism — limiting alcohol consumption rather than facilitating it freely. The Victorian detachment designation places this within a specific unit's canteen economy, where vouchers circulated as internal scrip redeemable only at the unit canteen, not for cash.
These survive in tiny numbers because they were destroyed upon redemption. Most extant examples were simply never used.