COMMUNE OF PARIS — BREAD VOUCHERS - Lot 90

COMMUNE OF PARIS — BREAD VOUCHERS FRENCH REPUBLIC. CITY HALL OF THE 11TH ARRONDISSEMENT. RELIEF. Voucher for FIVE HUNDRED grams of bread. Paris, Lefebvre Printing House, 87–89 Passage du Caire, [1871]. Sheet of yellow paper containing four vouchers for 500 grams of bread, printed for the 11th arrondissement of Paris during the Commune. Printed signatures of delegates Delescluze, Verdure, and Mortier. Several vouchers bear the town hall’s circular administrative stamp. An ephemera document particularly representative of the relief and supply measures taken by the municipal authorities during the events of 1871. Condition: old creases; irregular lower edge with a tear partially affecting the fourth voucher; some soiling and wear. Old handwritten notation “50 F.”

Estimate:£67.77

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