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1 000 Dollars - Lavo Ltd. Montreal, Quebec
| Issuer | La Compagnie Lavo Limitée (The Lavo Co. Ltd.) |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | ECONOMIE SECURITE $1000CASH BONUS $1000SAVE SAFELY $1000BON D'ACHAT $1000 Rachat: Minimum $30.00 (en argent) LAVO LTÉE Remboursable en argent à1% de la valeur nominale du Bon d'achat par le Compagnie Lavo Limitée ou tout agent autorisé, après vérification de l'authenticité du bon d'achat. E Bouthillier Albert Goyette PRÉSIDENT VICE-PRÉSIDENT LA CIE LAVO LTÉE, 1880 RUE CHAMBLY, MONTRÉAL 402, CANADA |
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| Signature(s) | E. Bouthillier and Albert Goyette |
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Lavo was a Montreal-based manufacturer of household cleaning and laundry products, and this note is a trade token in banknote form — almost certainly a scrip issued for internal use, likely redeemable against goods or employee wages rather than functioning as circulating currency in any conventional sense. Quebec saw a small wave of such corporate scrip instruments in the mid-twentieth century, particularly from manufacturers with large workforces and company store arrangements.
The denomination of 1,000 Dollars is almost certainly in points or internal units, not Canadian currency — no private Quebec company had authority to issue bearer instruments in actual dollar amounts.