COMMUNE OF PARIS — BREAD VOUCHERS - Lot 89

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 printed in black on yellow paper, comprising four relief coupons each for 500 grams of bread. Printed signatures of Commune delegates Delescluze, Verdure, and Mortier; circular administrative stamps affixed to several coupons. A rare surviving document illustrating the subsistence measures implemented in Parisian arrondissements during the Commune. Condition: generally good; old creases, slight soiling, and minor marginal wear. Handwritten notation “50 F” in the upper left corner.

Estimate:$201.52

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