Frame just for show want be shipped in a frame RARE ORIGINAL WWII HOME-FRONT RATIONING ARCHIVE
Offered as one collection is an impressive group of original United States World War II rationing documents issued by the Office of Price Administration. The archive includes multiple named War Ration Books One and Two, a War Ration Book No. 3 application, a T-1 Transport Mileage Ration identification booklet, and a scarce Army Department tobacco ration card expiring October 29, 1945.
COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS:
• Multiple original U.S. War Ration Books One and Two
• Several documents connected to members of the Fay family of Lepanto, Arkansas
• Additional named ration book issued in Dallas, Texas
• 1943–1945 T-1 Transport Mileage Ration booklet for a 1935 Chevrolet
• War Ration Book No. 3 application dated 1943 from Fort Worth, Texas
• Army Department tobacco ration card issued to a U.S. Army Air Corps major
• Tobacco card retains multiple numbered ration tabs
• Attractive framed presentation containing the principal ration documents
• Genuine period signatures, serial numbers, addresses and OPA markings
These documents preserve the personal side of America’s wartime home front, when families were required to use government-issued ration books and stamps to purchase restricted goods. Unlike loose, unrelated examples, this collection brings together food, transportation and military tobacco-rationing material in one historically meaningful display.
The documents show authentic age-related wear, including toning, folds, handwriting, edge wear, staining and small tears. The tobacco ration card has visible paper loss, and the frame shows normal handling wear. No claim is made that every original stamp or internal page remains present. Please study all photographs carefully because they form an important part of the description.
Everything shown is included and will be sold together as one lot. A distinctive display for collectors of WWII memorabilia, military history, OPA material, American home-front ephemera or historical documents.
