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Bon Pour 1 Flûte
| Issuer | Groupement Professionnel de la Boulangerie de Tarn et Garonne |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain off-white paper printed in dark green letterpress. The issuer's name, GROUPEMENT PROFESSIONNEL DE LA BOULANGERIE DE TARN ET GARONNE, runs across the top in two lines. A large bordered rectangular vignette below carries the denomination in bold display type: '1F' to the left, 'Bon pour' above, and 'FLÛTE FANTASIE 800 GR.' in large and small capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | GROUPEMENT PROFESSIONNEL DE LA BOULANGERIE DE TARN ET GARONNE Bon pour 1 FLÛTE FANTASIE 800 GR. |
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French boulangers' trade associations issued bread-specific vouchers — bons pour pain — throughout the mid-twentieth century as a rationing and cooperative accounting tool, particularly during and after periods of wartime supply restriction. This example, denominated in a single baguette rather than any monetary unit, was a purely local instrument redeemable only within the participating bakeries of Tarn-et-Garonne, a predominantly agricultural département in the Occitanie region. The flûte, slightly shorter and lighter than a standard baguette, was its own rationed unit.
These ephemeral pieces rarely survived use — they were exchanged across counters and discarded.