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2 Mark Ferienkolonie Vogelkoje
| Issuer | Ferienkolonie Vogelkoje, Kampen auf Sylt |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a two-line Low German verse in Fraktur script across the top border, reading "Swatt is de Bood, un witt de Sand / Un rot de Seiv to düt Stück Land". Below, a hand-drawn pen-and-ink vignette occupies the full width of the note, illustrating the holiday colony compound with low timber buildings, sand dunes, a central flagpole flying a pennant, and groups of children at play in the foreground. The denomination "2 M" appears in bold Fraktur at upper left and upper right, with the printer's imprint "Hartung & Co. Hamburg" in small roman type at lower centre; a wave-pattern watermark underprint is visible through the paper. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Ferienkolonie Vogelkoje was a children's holiday colony established at Kampen on the island of Sylt, and this 2 Mark note is the kind of hyper-local Notgeld that circulated exclusively within a single institution's economy — effectively internal scrip redeemable only on the premises. Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a significant volume of small-run Notgeld commissions during the inflationary early 1920s, and the inclusion of a watermark on a note of this modest purchasing power is an uncommon touch for colony-issued paper of this type.
H. Hecker's design credit distinguishes this from the anonymous majority of contemporary institutional scrip.