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20 Heller Klaffer
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klaffer (Municipality of Klaffer) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress vignette on cream paper stock, centred on a street-scene view of Klaffer with a church steeple rising above village buildings and tree-lined road receding into the distance. The denomination numeral '20' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the legend 'Zwanzig Heller' in Gothic script across the top. Floral and foliate ornaments frame the lateral borders, and the issuer inscription 'Gemeinde Klaffer.' is set in Gothic lettering along the lower margin above a wavy ornamental rule; the designer's credit 'L. Haase, Linz' appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Red letterpress text on cream paper, entirely enclosed within a geometric square-dot border. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Klaffer, O.-Ö.' is set in bold Gothic script, followed by the denomination '20 Heller 20' in large numerals. A block of text in Gothic script below states the redemption conditions and date, followed by the facsimile signatures of the deputy mayor and mayor. A small monogram stamp appears at upper right, and an anti-counterfeiting warning is printed along the lower margin. |
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Klaffer is a small market town on the upper Mühl river in Upper Austria, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued after the First World War when coin shortages made small-denomination exchange nearly impossible. Thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency scrip between 1919 and 1922; the Klaffer series is among the more modest productions, a purely functional local issue rather than the collectible "Serienscheine" that larger towns commissioned specifically for the philatelic trade.
L. Haase's design credit is uncommon enough to suggest a local printer rather than one of the major Viennese houses. Both signatories — Groiß as Vizeburgermeister and Köffler as Bürgermeister — authenticated the note under municipal authority rather than any banking institution.