🇫🇷 1946–1949 France Bread Ration Coupons & Food Relief Tickets Collection
This grouping represents France’s ongoing struggle with shortages after WWII, when bread remained rationed until 1949. The Pain 50 g coupons show beautiful multicolor security printing, while the Feuille Trimestrielle and Sept 1946 issues mark the transition from wartime scarcity to slow normalization.
✨ Features:
Dated fragments spanning 1946 – 1949 (Liberation to rationing’s end)
Pain 50 g bread coupons stamped “I.C. Frontière”
Feuille Trimestrielle de Coupons – 1er Trimestre 1949
Multicolor designs with crisp perforations and security patterns
Rare glimpse of France’s food-supply bureaucracy after the war
💡 Historical Note:
France was the last Western European country to lift bread rationing. These coupons trace the nation’s recovery and symbolize endurance through economic hardship and reconstruction.
📦 Ships within 3 days in archival protective packaging. A wonderful addition for collectors of WWII and postwar European ration memorabilia and historical ephemera.
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