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1 Mark Männer-Turnverein
| Issuer | Männer-Turnverein Bremen von 1875 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Reverse description | Woodcut-style vignette printed in yellow, green, blue, and black on cream paper, with a serrated border. The left side carries a figure of a wanderer in period dress, wearing a cap and carrying a bundle over his shoulder, rendered in blue and black. To the right, a rural scene with a white farmhouse set among rolling hills and green-foliaged trees occupies the lower half. The upper portion bears the validity clause in bold lettering, with the numeral '100' flanking it at upper left and right, and the central text block reading 'GUTSCHEIN FÜR ZAHLUNGEN INNERHALB DES M.T.V.B.' |
| Reverse lettering | Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Bekanntgabe im Kreisblatt der D.T. 100 GUTSCHEIN FÜR ZAHLUNGEN INNERHALB DES M.T.V.B. 100 |
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Männer-Turnverein Bremen von 1875 was a gymnastics club, not a bank — which makes this note a product of the Notgeld phenomenon, where German civic organizations, municipalities, and private firms issued their own emergency scrip during the severe coin shortage of 1917–1921. Clubs of this type typically issued small denominations to cover internal transactions: membership fees, canteen tabs, equipment deposits.
G. Hunckel was a local Bremen printer with no particular pedigree in security printing, which is exactly the point — Notgeld issuers worked with whoever was nearby and available.