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25 Cents Marbo Gumas
| Issuer | Officers' Club, Marbo Gumas Lounge and Mess |
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| Year | 1946-1950 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on cream paper stock. The left panel bears the issuer title in a banner at top, with the lounge and mess name in bold block lettering below, and a red serial number at lower centre; the warning clause appears at lower left in italic script. The denomination '25 CENTS' is set in large numerals within a ruled box at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | OFFICERS' CLUB MARBO GUMAS LOUNGE AND MESS NOT GOOD IF DETACHED 25 CENTS |
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Military messes and officers' clubs across U.S. installations issued their own scrip during the late 1940s as a practical solution to on-base cash handling — keeping money circulating within the facility, discouraging theft, and simplifying accounting. The Marbo Gumas Lounge and Mess was part of the U.S. military presence on Guam following the island's recapture from Japanese forces in 1944, and scrip of this type would have moved across the bar counter rather than any commercial till.
Mess scrip is among the least systematically collected categories of military ephemera. Much of it was redeemed and pulped, and what survived did so largely by accident — in pockets, footlockers, or correspondence sent home.