Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Waarde 10 Frank - Harmonie vooruit, Gent
| Issuer | Harmonie Vooruit, Gent |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Vouchers |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Plain light-blue ground printed in blue and red by letterpress. Issuer name HARMONIE VOORUIT GENT appears at top in bold blue capitals, above a red wavy-line guilloche underprint overlaid with a stylised decorative flourish. A blue rounded-rectangle panel at centre carries the legend WAARDE above the large denomination numeral 10 F. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, uniform pale blue stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements; only natural paper creasing and surface wear are visible. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Harmonie Vooruit was a socialist cultural society in Ghent, and like many Belgian mutual associations and cooperatives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it issued its own internal scrip to circulate among members — redeemable at society-affiliated shops, canteens, or events rather than at any bank. These tokens of account existed entirely outside the formal monetary system and were legally tolerated as long as they stayed within the issuing community.
The unusually square proportions of this note are a practical consequence of small private print runs, where economy of paper stock and simplicity of layout took precedence over convention.