Middle page: That little strip of the wheat stamps is a little strip of whats left of a page and lying ontop of a full sheet of the green torch stamps.
I collect United States Classics, classic covers, Tobacco related covers & bill-heads and World fair ephemera (prior to 1930's)
Great looking pieces you have there krash. How did they go about using them??? Do you have any history/information about them.
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You know Chris I really don't quite understand exactly how they was used. I do however remember my Great Grandmother talking about them (and what a pain in the neck they was) but their exact use is not understood fully to me?
I do know that per each family there was an allowance of of stuff you could have like- Bread, milk, meat, fuel and all sorts of other "consumables" and these stamps were either cashed in at the grocery store (or wherever) or used at home in a ration book to mark how much you had and can get yet. Understand?
If any knows exactly how they was used (which is probably only a Google search away) please step up to the plate and let us know OK?
Paging TOMD!! you should know this stuff right? I think you would have been born (hatched?) probably just after all this stuff right? 4030434416
I collect United States Classics, classic covers, Tobacco related covers & bill-heads and World fair ephemera (prior to 1930's)
Rationing, instituted in the spring of 1942, was a system that provided everyone with the same amount of scarce goods. The system was designed to keep prices low and to make sure people had what they needed. Each member of the family was issued ration books, and it was the challenge of the homemaker to pool the stamps and plan the family's meals within the set limits. Lost ration books was a major headache because you couldn't buy the rationed items without the stamps. Grocers and other business people would post what your ration could buy that week. It was up to you to decide how to spend your stamps. Ration books became a way of life for everyone at home during World War II. Books were about the size of a postcard. Each one was filled with ration stamps. Ration stamps themselves were very small. You had to have ration stamps to buy things at the store. It still cost money, but you couldn't even buy it unless you had stamps.
I collect United States Classics, classic covers, Tobacco related covers & bill-heads and World fair ephemera (prior to 1930's)
I don`t have any of those ration books, but I do have a dozen little Canada Meat Viande Ration tokens:
I doubt it is possible to get a much better photo, because the writing is black on dark blue stiff cardboard. I would think these would be fairly easy to counterfeit (if one wanted to!) today, but maybe not so easy in the 1940s.
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Post by ChickasawStampMan on Oct 16, 2013 22:40:10 GMT -5
My parents had these ration books. They were kids then. My mothers' father ran a general store in grady, Arkansas. He had to collect them and turn them in. Don't know actual process, but i do have several ration books.
I don`t have any of those ration books, but I do have a dozen little Canada Meat Viande Ration tokens:
I doubt it is possible to get a much better photo, because the writing is black on dark blue stiff cardboard. I would think these would be fairly easy to counterfeit (if one wanted to!) today, but maybe not so easy in the 1940s.
Scan them on your scanner. They would really show up nice then. Just a thought.
I collect United States Classics, classic covers, Tobacco related covers & bill-heads and World fair ephemera (prior to 1930's)
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