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5 Cents Ragama store

发行方 Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd.
年份 1901
类型 Vouchers
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正面描述 Black letterpress on salmon-pink underprint with a palm tree vignette watermark-style background. The British Royal coat of arms appears at upper centre, flanked by the place and date inscription. At left, a circular company seal reads "Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd." enclosing "Value 5 cts."; denomination "FIVE CENTS." is printed in bold at centre, with the Prisoners-of-War usage clause below. "Series B." appears at lower left.
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背面描述 Reverse is blank, without any printed design or lettering.
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The Ceylon Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd. operated cold storage and ice manufacturing facilities in Ceylon under British colonial administration, and like many large plantation-era enterprises, it issued its own token currency for use within its controlled commercial sphere — in this case, the Ragama store. These merchant scrip notes functioned as a closed-loop currency, redeemable only at the issuing establishment, effectively tying workers and local traders to a single vendor.

Ragama, a town north of Colombo on the main rail line, made it a logical hub for cold storage distribution. Company scrip from Ceylon at this period is genuinely rare in any form — most was redeemed, destroyed, or simply discarded when the issuing business folded or converted to cash wages under colonial labor reforms in the early twentieth century.

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