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2 Mark
| Issuer | Klodnitz-Oderhafen (Upper Silesia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich), Breslau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a large bare-branched tree rising from the municipal coat of arms of Klodnitz, set against vertical line guilloche work on an ochre ground, flanked by two yellow corner panels each bearing the denomination '2 M' in bold Gothic blackletter. The lower left panel carries a validity notice in cursive script on a pale blue guilloche underprint, while the lower right panel bears the issue location, date, and an authorising signature. The issuer name 'Klodnitz=Oderhafen' runs along the bottom in decorative script, with the printer's imprint and series notation below the outer border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the town name 'Klodnitz=Oderhafen.' in large Gothic blackletter across the top on a blue-grey band. The central field is divided into two equal landscape vignettes: the left panel presents a Baroque chapel or gate tower with surrounding fence and leafless trees; the right panel shows a timber-framed harbour or industrial building with smoke rising, rendered in a fine letterpress illustrative style. Denomination panels '2 M' in Gothic numerals occupy the upper corners, flanked by lateral side panels bearing a red chevron-pattern guilloche underprint. |
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Klodnitz-Oderhafen — the combined canal port settlement on the Klodnitz Canal linking Gleiwitz to the Oder — issued this note during the plebiscite period that preceded the 1921 Upper Silesian vote on whether the region would remain German or join Poland. Municipal Notgeld from small industrial communities in that corridor was often as much a political statement as a practical necessity, asserting administrative continuity under conditions of deep uncertainty.
Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich) in Breslau handled a substantial volume of Silesian Notgeld printing during this period, which keeps production quality consistent but makes individual issues difficult to distinguish on technical grounds alone.