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6 Quarts Strawberry ticket; Clyde Beaver
| Issuer | Clyde Beaver |
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| Year | 1900-1940 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 6 Quarts NOT TRANSFERABLE CLYDE BEAVER |
| Reverse description | Pink card stock reverse bearing a partial chain-link decorative border along the upper edge. The surface carries various pencilled handwritten annotations and numerals added in use, with faint blue ink impressions visible; no printed text was originally applied to this side. |
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Clyde Beaver was almost certainly a berry farmer or produce dealer operating a pick-your-own or contracted-harvest operation, issuing denominated cardboard tickets to track worker or customer credit in the field — a practice common across rural North America from the 1880s through the Depression era. The "6 Quarts" denomination functions like a scrip unit, redeemable for fruit rather than currency, keeping accounts without cash changing hands during a harvest.
These agricultural commodity tickets were ephemeral by design. Printed locally, often by a job printer in a nearby town, they survived only when a season ended with unused stock.