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5 Rupees Ragama store
| Issuer | Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd. |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#4843 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress on violet underprint; British Royal coat of arms at upper centre. Circular company seal at left bearing the legend "Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd." enclosing the denomination "Value 5 Rs.", with a tropical palm-tree vignette in the underprint. Series designation "Series B." in a decorative cartouche at lower left; two manuscript signatures below the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | RAGAMA, COLOMBO CEYLON AUGUST 1ST, 1901. FIVE RUPEES. Good for supplies to Prisoners-of-War only at the Company's Store, RAGAMA CEYLON ICE & COLD STORAGE Co. Ltd. Value 5 Rs. Series B. Agents & Secretaries. Manager |
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The Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd. was one of several colonial-era commercial enterprises in Ceylon that issued their own scrip for use at company stores — a practice common where retail infrastructure was thin and plantation or depot workers needed a controlled credit mechanism. This Ragama issue ties the note specifically to the company's cold storage facility north of Colombo on the main rail line, which served both the capital's ice trade and transit refrigeration needs.
Company store scrip of this type rarely survived in quantity. Workers spent it, employers redeemed it in bulk, and nobody archived it.