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15 Centimes Comité Bruxellois
| Issuer | Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation – Comité Bruxellois |
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| Printer | E. Guyot, Bruxelles |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed voucher with a neoclassical architectural frame flanked by two allegorical figures: at left, Charity (CHARITÉ) seated and nursing an infant; at right, Devotion (DÉVOUEMENT) standing beside a column. The Brussels city coat of arms appears in the central pediment above the issuer legend. A pale red guilloche underprint with a faint building vignette fills the centre field, above two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMITÉ BRUXELLOIS DE SECOURS ET D'ALIMENTATION BRUSSELSCH HULP- EN VOEDINGSCOMITEIT Ce bon sera échangé contre des marchandises d'une valeur de quinze centimes exclusivement dans un des magasins ci-dessous aux personnes possédant une carte de ménage revêtue du cachet Soupe communale. Magasins du Comité : 1. Abattoir. 2. Rue du Peuplier. 3. Rue des Minimes. 4. Rue des Sols. 5. Rue des Patriotes. 6. Rue Van Helmont. 7. Rue des Boiteux. Magasins communaux : 1. Rue d'Anderlecht, 168-174. 2. Rue Locquenghien, 2. 3. Rue des Minimes, 2. 4. Rue de Loxum, 33-37. 5. Ch. d'Etterbeek, 23. 6. Rue Saint-Ghislain. 7. R. des Comédiens, 55. LE COMITÉ De personen in bezit van eene huishoudskaart, voorzien met den stempel der Gemeentesoep, mogen deze bon uitwisselen tegen koopwaren hebbende eene waarde van vijftien centiemen. De uitwisseling geschiedt uitsluitelijk in een der hieronder vermelde winkels. Magazijnen van het Comiteit : 1. Slachthuis. 2. Populierstraat. 3. Minimenstraat. 4. Stuiversstraat. 5. Patriottenstraat. 6. Van Helmontstraat. 7. Kreupelstraat. Magazijnen der Gemeente : 1. Anderlechtsche steenweg, 168 tot 174. 2. Locquenghienstraat, 2. 3. Ursulinenstraat, 27. 4. Loxumstraat, 33 tot 37. 5. Etterbeeksche st., 23. 6. Sint-Gisleinstraat. 7. Komediantenstraat, 55. HET COMITEIT E. Guyot, Bruxelles. |
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The Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation was the vast Belgian civilian relief organization that kept roughly ten million people fed during the German occupation in World War One, operating in uneasy partnership with Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium. The Comité Bruxellois was its Brussels-district arm, and these small-denomination notes were issued to facilitate local distribution payments and wage substitutes when fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, exported, or melted.
E. Guyot was a well-established Brussels commercial printer, not a security press, which shows in the modest production values. Jean Pattesson's design credit is unusual for a note of this type and denomination.