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2 Mark Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur
| Issuer | Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur, Landesgruppe Sachsen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | M. Eschle |
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| Obverse description | Red-ground letterpress note dated 1921, centred on a stylised Expressionist vignette of a seated female allegorical figure rendered in grey-blue, resting one hand on a chequered tablet and holding a large quill to her right, with a conifer tree behind her. The denomination 'Zwei Mark' is set in large Gothic blackletter across the upper field, flanked by the year digits '1' '9' and '2' '1', while two black banner ribbons at mid-height carry the legends 'SPENDE' at left and 'FÜR DIE' at right. A broad black cartouche across the lower vignette reads 'LIGA ZUM SCHUTZE DER DEUTSCHEN KULTUR', with 'LANDESGRUPPE' at lower left and 'SACHSEN.' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1921 Zwei Mark SPENDE FÜR DIE LIGA ZUM SCHUTZE DER DEUTSCHEN KULTUR LANDESGRUPPE SACHSEN. |
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The Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur — the League for the Protection of German Culture — was one of dozens of völkisch organizations that proliferated in the early Weimar years, issuing this notgeld through its Saxon regional group in 1921. That a cultural-nationalist league was printing its own scrip at all speaks to how thoroughly the notgeld phenomenon had been colonized by political actors by that point in the inflation crisis.
The Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled production — a municipal print works serving a mid-sized Saxon textile town. Designer M. Eschle is otherwise obscure in notgeld literature.