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1 Loaf of Bread - Vooruit green
| Issuer | Société Maatschappij Vooruit (S.M. Vooruit) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Size | 58 x 37 mm |
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| Obverse description | Water-green ground with an overall repetitive underprint of X-motifs inside small circles (3 mm diameter), each containing a central cross, leaving an open reserve in the center bearing the initials S.M.V. Letterpress text in black reads S. M. VOORUIT / WAARDE / EEN BROOD / Nr {serial}. A club-shaped cancellation perforation is present at the upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse, either left blank or applied with a black rectangular date stamp reading S.M. VOORUIT No 1 GENT / (stamp #) - 1 JUNI 1941 - (stamp #) / BUREEL SOC. FONDSEN, indicating redemption or administrative processing at the Ghent branch. |
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Vooruit — the Ghent-based socialist cooperative — issued bread tokens rather than currency, but during the German occupation these pieces functioned as genuine rationing instruments when official supply chains had collapsed. The cooperative had operated since 1880 and maintained its own bakeries, making it one of the few institutions in occupied Belgium capable of guaranteeing bread delivery against a token redeemable at its own counters.
The perforation as a security feature is characteristic of the wartime Vooruit issues — simple, cheap, and difficult to replicate without the cooperative's own equipment.