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1 Cent - American Basket Food & Liquor, Inc. Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | American Basket Food & Liquor, Inc. |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper credit slip with an ornate guilloche border and corner medallions bearing the denomination '1c'. A circular vignette at left contains a scales-of-justice motif. Central text identifies the issuer and address in bold letterpress, with a faint oval underprint stamp at centre. A ruled panel at the base repeats the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1c 1c FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at American Basket Food & Liquor, Inc. 8005 South Racine Ave. Chicago, Ill. ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1c 1c |
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American Basket Food & Liquor, Inc. was a Chicago retail operation that issued small-denomination scrip — almost certainly as a store credit or change-making instrument during a period when low-denomination coin was either scarce or simply inconvenient for high-volume counter transactions. This kind of merchant scrip was common among Chicago food and liquor retailers in the mid-twentieth century, operating in a legal grey zone that federal authorities periodically scrutinized but rarely prosecuted at the retail level.
The issuer is otherwise sparsely documented, which is typical for single-location scrip of this type. Survival rate tends to be low — these were functional tokens, not saved.