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½ Cent - The B. Houde Company Quebec City
| Issuer | The B. Houde Company, Limited |
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| Value | ½ Cent 0.010 CAD = EUR 0.0062 |
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| Obverse description | Orange letterpress coupon with a plain ruled border. Text is arranged in two columns in English and French, stating the merchantable value of one half cent and redemption instructions for The B. Houde Company, Limited, Quebec. A faint repetitive underprint pattern is visible across the entire field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Valuable Coupons If returned to the B. Houde Company, Limited, Premium Department, P. O. Box 280, Quebec, Can., they will be ex- changed for presents shown on our premium lists. Premium List will be mailed on receipt of postcard. The merchantable value of this coupon is one half cent. Delivered at Quebec by Coupons de Valeur S'ils sont retournés à la Com- pagnie B. Houde, Limitée, Département de Primes, Casier 280, Québec, Can., ils seront échangés pour cadeaux énumérés dans nos listes de cadeaux. Une liste de cadeaux sera en- voyée sur demande. La valeur marchande de ce coupon est un demi-centin. Livré à Québec par THE B. HOUDE COMPANY, LIMITED. See over Voyez au verso |
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B. Houde was one of Quebec City's dominant tobacco manufacturers through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and these fractional notes were issued as private scrip to facilitate small change transactions at a time when low-denomination coinage was chronically scarce in everyday retail commerce. Canadian merchants across multiple provinces resorted to similar expedients during the same period.
The Quebec City printing origin is consistent with several local printers who produced commercial scrip of this type. Whether this was issued company-wide or restricted to a specific retail outlet is not firmly established in the literature.