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Author Topic: The Home Front: USA Ration Books  (Read 74 times)
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« on: 9 July 2009, 22:08:18 »
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Here is the front cover of a US Ration coupon booklet, c1943.


4 types of the coupons found inside the book; some good for meats/fat some for canned goods, others for car products still others for sugar.

The back of the booklet with instructions and tips, including advice not to "pay more than the legal price" for anything.

Here is one site which explains a bit more:  http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing2.htm
Some of the stamps appear different on this site from the ones in my book shown here even though both are supposedly the same 'War Ration book Four'.
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