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Alberta Provincial Stamp
Script
not alone in the wilderness
aberhart's prosperity certificates:
front and Back Stamp Side
See Similar Stamp Certificate Scrip Issued in Harwarden
, Iowa in 1932
at Neil
Schafer's article on Numismaster Dot Com
other municipal scrip
Raymond Alberta Municipal
Town Warrant
Rural Municipality of Marquis
Saskatchewan - 1932
North of Caronport Saskatchewan
Brantford , Ontario Depression
Scrip
Printed but never issued, The Council
got cold feet. To date, this is still an unknown depression note. No actual
issues from the 1930's have been found, but below is an impress from the orginal
plates.
See
Depression Script.com for plate pictures
Therefore, no one knows what the actual colors and paper stock was intended
to be used for this note.
But
it is intriguing to know that William Aberhart was principal of Brantford
Central High
School before moving to Calgary in 1910. Were conversations with him
or news articles behind the idea here in Ontario?
Other Canadian Depression
Era Script
Vermilion , Alberta
Reverse side of Vermilion has unique landscape scene
North Burnaby British Columbia
Company Scrip
C.G. Cooperative Association 5 Unit Note
Another Note of Interest is that William and Jessie
Aberhart are
buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetary in Burnaby B.C.
canadian metis dominion land
scrip
More USA Script
Pendleton , Oregon - 1933
More Stamp scrip in Sedalia,
Missouri 1933
Rhode Island Scrip - 1933
Atlantic City Municipal Scrip
- 1936
Same year as Prosperity Certificates
in Aberhart's Alberta
Why doesn't the media mention all of this other, 'funny money.'
carmel , california script
- 1933
cambridge, wisconsin - 1933-34
longbranch , New Jersery one
dollar
depression scrip of 1934 : Front and Back
civil war script usa
city of chatanooga, post civil war scrip
grimes, co,texas
The attached photo is submitted to supplement and correct the item on
the Grimes County GenWeb
page titled "Civil War Script." The correct word is "Scrip,"
misspelled by the submitter of the posted
photo. Grimes County, as did other counties, issued scrip as legal tender
during the Civil War.
G. M Patrick, Chief Justice, signed the scrip and G. A. Mooring, County Clerk,
attested his signature.
Anyone who has a piece of the "Patrick" scrip today has a valuable
collector's item.
Several Louisiana railroads issued their own "money" during
the Civil War. The New Orleans, Jackson
and Great Northern, for example, issued and circulated its own notes in Louisiana
and Mississippi.
This "railroad money" could neither bear interest, nor could its
denominations be larger than five dollars.
As the Confederacy began to crumble, the people along the railway turned to
the Great Northern's currency.
Yet at the end of hostilities, the company was bankrupt.
Private company scrip
Scrip was issued by the company owned stores to those employees who made
a request for it between paydays.
If an employee wanted to draw against his earned wages before payday, he could
apply for "scrip" which could
be spent only in the company store. The amount of scrip would then be deducted
from his weekly or biweekly
pay by the mine company payroll office. Most of the coal mine companies had
their own stores which stocked
basic commodities such as corn, beans, fruit, flour, canned goods, meat, sugar,
candy, ice cream, tobacco,
clothing, and furniture. In coal camps, the only store in town was usually
owned or run on
behalf of the coal company.
Scrip from Merchantile Store in Adamson, Oklahoma
new jersey colonial scrip
Military personnel deployed in other countries
(protective or occupation) are generally paid in military scrip,
which prevents legal tender from going into the black market, plus it is
an excellent way of keeping tabs on military payments and spending.
This type of scrip can be exchanged through the military for legal
tender upon return to the home nation. Military occupying powers
have also been known to issue occupation scrip for local civilian use
as a means of controlling the local economies.
Air Script
Naval Scrip
usa Military scrip
concentration camp money (german)
During World War II, Germany created special currency
(more like scrip, really) specifically for
concentration camps. These were often created by the Jewish prisoners and
many were quite intricate.
Concentration Camp Money are collectible because of their historical reasons
and as a
reminder of the Holocaust.The concentration
camp money(scrip) shown above was used by inmates and had no
convertibility outside the camp. This had the effect of denying escapees from
having
any money to spend if they escaped. The Concentration Camp Money above was
issued
in the Westerbork Concentration Camp (where Anne Frank and her family were
taken.)
Was William Aberhart
way out on a limb with Prosperity Certificates
or in the company of a Mutitude?
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