🇫🇷 1945 France Niort Food Ration Coupons – Meat & Butter Post-WWII For Sale

🇫🇷 1945 France Niort Food Ration Coupons – Meat & Butter Post-WWII

This authentic Tic. 2591 normal MCV ration document allocated essential foodstuffs — Viande (meat), Beurre (butter), Fromage (cheese), and Denrées Diverses (miscellaneous goods). It reflects the critical post-liberation period when rationing continued despite victory, as France faced agricultural and industrial shortages.

✨ Features:

• Clearly dated “Sept. 45” throughout

• Official ink-stamped municipal seal: “Cachet de Niort”

• Printed categories for Meat, Butter, Cheese, and Fats

• Denominations: 60g and 90g rations (Viande)

• Intricate anti-counterfeiting background printing

💡 Historical Note:
Even months after liberation, food rationing in France remained strict. Citizens depended on these government-issued coupons to purchase basic goods — tangible proof of post-war resilience and recovery.

📦 Ships within 3 days in archival protective packaging. A genuine and evocative artifact from France’s 1945 reconstruction era — perfect for collectors of WWII home-front memorabilia or European post-war history.

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