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1 Rupee Ragama store; type 2
| Uitgever | The Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Company |
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| Jaar | 1901 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed in black and red on blue paper, with the British Royal coat of arms as a central vignette at the upper portion. A purple hand stamp is applied over the face. Text is set in letterpress throughout. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Reverse left blank, without any printed design, text, or ornamentation. |
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| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opmerkingen |
Private trade tokens on paper — what collectors call "store notes" or "bazaar notes" — were common across colonial Ceylon, issued by estates, mills, and company stores to pay workers in scrip redeemable only at the issuer's own shop. The Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Company's Ragama store notes are unusual participants in that tradition: ice and cold storage was a capital-intensive infrastructure business, not the typical plantation operation that issued this kind of scrip.
Ragama, a town north of Colombo on the main railway line, was a logical distribution point. Whether workers were paid directly in scrip or whether these circulated more broadly among local traders is not firmly established.