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50 Pfennig Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde
| Issuer | Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde (Oldenburg in Oldenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of a German Shepherd dog in black letterpress, wearing a Red Cross medallion at its chest, set against a pale oval frame. Flanking silhouette scenes in black show, at left, a seated wounded soldier attended by a dog, and at right, a blind veteran being guided by a dog; palm-frond underprint fills the background. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in ornate Gothic script panels at upper left and right, surmounted by the title 'Deutscher Führhund für Kriegs-Blinde' in red-bordered Gothic lettering; below the central vignette, red decorative floral ornaments flank the place and date 'Oldenburg i/O. 1·9·2·1', with two text blocks at lower left and right carrying redemption conditions referencing the Commerz & Privatbank Filiale Oldenburg and the Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde; the printer's imprint 'GERHARD STALLING, OLDENBURG' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig 50 Pfennig EIN·SICHRER·FÜHRER. |
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The Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde — the German Association for Sanitary Dogs — trained Red Cross search-and-rescue dogs, a practice that had expanded significantly during the First World War. By 1921, with Germany deep in postwar inflation and notgeld flooding every municipality, even private organizations with payroll or operational needs could issue their own emergency scrip. This note is precisely that: a small-denomination piece to cover internal transactions within an organization that had neither a banking charter nor any obvious reason to exist as a currency issuer.
Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg was a substantial regional printer, better known today for launching the world's first guide dog training school in 1916 — a direct outgrowth of wartime sanitätshunde work.