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50 Pfennig Kleinkunstindustrie Carl Günther Tresselt
| Issuer | Carl Günther Tresselt, Großbreitenbach (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Carl O. Heyder, Gehren, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfg Dieser Gutschein wird nur an Angestellte meines Hauses ausgegeben und an diese an meiner Geschäftskasse im Betrage von nicht unter 5 Mark in bar zurückbezahlt. Der Betrag ist bei der Bank Darlehenskassenverein Großbreitenbach deponiert. Giltig bis 31. Juli 1922. Entwurf Paul Neu, München. Druck C.O. Heyder Gehren. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kleinkunstindustrie Carl Günther Tresselt Großbreitenbach im Thüringen 5 Pfg |
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Großbreitenbach sits in the Ilm district of Thuringia, and by 1921 the town's small craft and decorative arts workshops — what the Germans were calling Kleinkunstindustrie — were hemorrhaging coin along with everyone else during the Weimar inflation emergency. This notgeld was issued by Carl Günther Tresselt specifically to keep local commerce moving when Reichsbank coin simply wasn't available in small denominations.
Paul Neu was a Munich-based commercial artist who contributed designs to numerous Thuringian notgeld series during this period. Printing was handled by Carl O. Heyder in nearby Gehren, a short distance from Großbreitenbach — an unusually local production chain for notgeld of this quality.