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20 Francs - Camp pour Prisonniers de Guerre du Kommando de La Mailleraye
| Issuer | Raffinerie de La Mailleraye (S.F.P.) |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black on plain cream paper, the obverse bears the issuing authority designation "S.F.P." and "Raffinerie de La Mailleraye, Le Trait (S.-Inf)" in the upper central area, with a serial number field at upper right. The denomination "Bon pour 20 fr." is set in large bold letterpress type at centre, underscored by a heavy rule, with the purpose inscribed below in two lines identifying the note as prisoner-of-war camp money for the Kommando de La Mailleraye. A final line at the foot states that the voucher may be exchanged at the factory cashier. |
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| Reverse lettering | LE TRAIT, le.. La Direction, (Cachet) imp. L. PLUVOT Duclair (Translation: The management. (stamp)) |
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La Mailleraye-sur-Seine sits on a bend of the lower Seine in Normandy. During the German occupation, the sugar refinery there — the Société Française de Pétrification, or S.F.P. — was compelled to manage a prisoner-of-war work kommando on site, and with it came the practical problem of paying men who had no access to regular currency. This note was the solution: a privately printed scrip, legal only within the camp's internal economy, produced by a small press in nearby Duclair.
Imprimerie L. Pluvot was a local commercial printer, not a security firm. The absence of any serious anti-counterfeiting measures reflects the controlled population for which it was intended.