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The listing, RARE COLLECTIBLE VINTAGE WORLD WAR 2 FOOD RATIONING RED STAMPS has ended.

Rare Collectible Vintage World War 2 Food Rationing Red Stamps, Red-stamp rationing covered all meats, fats and oils, and most cheese, Every man, woman and child was given a ration book for food and had to register with a grocery store. The grocery store was only given enough food for the people on their list. When someone bought rationed food, the grocer stuck a sticker in his or her ration book to show that week's ration had been purchased

At first only butter, sugar and bacon was rationed. By the middle of 1940 all meat, eggs, cheese, jam, tea and milk was also rationed. Clothes were rationed from June 1941 due to a shortage of raw materials and also to allow the factories and workers to concentrate on producing weapons, aircraft and ammunition for the war.

The task of regulating food distribution was a major concern for the federal government from the beginning, with the Food Rationing Program set into motion in the spring of 1942. The Department of Agriculture unofficially handled administrative oversight until December 5, 1942. On that date, an executive order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt reorganized the department, putting a director of food distribution in charge of all agencies dealing with food processing, storage, allocation, and distribution, The government introduced rationing to make sure that everyone had a fair share of what was available,

One Person's Weekly Food Allowance

4oz (113g) lard or butter
12oz (340g) sugar
4oz (113g) bacon
6oz (170g) meat
2 eggs

There Are 30 Stamps On Each Side For A Total Of 60 Stamps

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Questions & Comments

Sorry, but look at those stamps again.
They even say: "HOLDEN TRADING STAMP" on every stamp.

You and any bidder on this auction should check this out for themselves, so they know what they are bidding on:

http://www.aw-wrdsmth.com/offers/greenstamps.html

I found this notice today, also:

"HOW TO REDEEM YOUR GOLD BOND,
MacDONALD PLAID, GOLD STRIKE,
BUCCANEER, RED SCISSORS, AND HOLDEN RED
STAMPS

As of 07/05, the following trading stamps are still redeemable: Gold Bond, Holden Red, MacDonald Plaid, Buccaneer, Red Scissors, and Gold Strike. The Gold Bond Stamps are redeemable for merchandise and all the others listed are redeemable for cash. The cash redemption is currently $0.01 per ten stamps, or $1.00 per thousand stamp points.
For more information on redeeming your stamps, or to request a current catalog, please call 1-800-625-1331. Do NOT contact me. This is a public service announcement and everything I know is here.

Their current mailing address is:
Gold Bond Stamp Co.
Attn: Mail Order Dept.
1405 Xenium Lane North
Plymouth, MN 55441"

I didn't know that, until today, but as you can see above, these appear to be worth money still and can be traded for cash!!!!

Further, if you look at Holdens book covers shown on these pages:

http://www.ioffer.com/i/Holden-Red-Stamps-Book-filled-with-stamps-rare-old-33024211

http://neighborhoodvalues.com/nv/paper/043PP.htm

you can read what these were used for. They say it right on the covers, trading stamps redeemable for gifts. merchandise and/or cash.

Your mom described the rationing stamp system to you perfectly.
But, these "Holden(s) Red Stamps" were trading stamps -- not "war ration" stamps.

May 28th, 2011 at 11:01:35 PM PDT by

you say they are trading stamps, maybe your right, i have no idea, i wasn't around in the 1940's

May 29th, 2011 at 10:52:42 AM PDT by

That is the great story of WWII food rationing stamps. And told quite well...But, I think if you check, these are not "ration" stamps. These are trading stamps, just like S&H Green Stamps or Plaid stamps and a variety of other vintage trading stamps redeemable for goods from a catalog. Still collectible from a bygone era - but not of the WWII rationing program.

May 28th, 2011 at 6:53:25 PM PDT by

all i know is what i was told, i wasn't around in the 1940's when they were out

May 29th, 2011 at 10:54:12 AM PDT by

thank you

May 21st, 2011 at 5:03:40 AM PDT by

WOW, pretty amazing!

May 29th, 2011 at 2:12:12 AM PDT by

thank you

May 29th, 2011 at 10:54:40 AM PDT by

no way, you are wrong, my mom said they were her food rationing stamps from world war 2, she should know they were hers and she is 87 years old, you have the wrong information, my mom gave me the information about them, and she should know what she is talking about they were hers and she used these kind of stamps for food rationing, please get your information right

May 28th, 2011 at 7:31:14 PM PDT by

oops, i forgot to mention flour was rationed, so that meant hardly no homemade bread for people, there wasn't such a thing back then as frozen foods or a loaf of bread like we buy in the store, you can grow potatoes in your garden like people did during world war 2, you have to do this in early spring, you know your potatoes that start to rot and have those long things coming out of them, those are called the eyes of the potato, the eye goes down to the inside of the potato, so make sure you don't cut the potato in half where the eyes of the potato are, for planting potatoes do cut the potato in half, the inside the white part goes into the ground straight down, the longer the eyes of the potato are the better for planting, cover with dirt, you will see green leaves coming out of the ground n a month or two, in the fall dig up the dirt, you will have potatoes just like people did during world war 2, the potatoes will have real thin light colored skin on the outside, so don't throw your old potatoes away, they are better than the potatoes you buy now

May 21st, 2011 at 2:32:56 PM PDT by

hope you enjoyed her story

May 21st, 2011 at 10:55:15 AM PDT by

yes you paid for the food, but couldn't get certain things without using the stamps. i remember when I started school and had air raid drills in the classrooms. I still worried if they would come to our shores. I remember watching blimps patrol the shorelines,
We were in San Francisco and every one was afraid we were next. I remember when the Japanese Seals blew up the ammo dump at Fort Bragg, CA. It was about 4 am and it threw me out of the bed. It was 90 miles away and was felt for over 100 miles. I shook for days. It was awful for a small child.
We had to have black shades on all the windows in case of an air raid and we were always on alert.

May 21st, 2011 at 10:52:24 AM PDT by

i was given permission by another listia member to tell about what she remembered about world war 2 and these rationing stamps, these are her exact words

May 21st, 2011 at 10:50:11 AM PDT by

fan me, i fan back

May 19th, 2011 at 7:04:30 PM PDT by

Great information. So few people understand what it was like and that the country could actually unite on a common goal. Thanks for this auction and your explanation.

May 20th, 2011 at 11:37:00 PM PDT by

your welome

May 21st, 2011 at 8:40:34 AM PDT by

Oh my goodness, such a wealth of information. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Makes the tough times we're having now not seem so rough!

May 20th, 2011 at 6:01:33 PM PDT by

compared to world war 2 or the depression, we are in a lot better shape than back then, but some things are still outrageous, like gasoline prices and food

May 20th, 2011 at 8:50:35 PM PDT by

Even while official rationing controls were being removed, quota limitations continued to be imposed on some manufacturers and producers, including those of shortening, margarine, salad oil, and other edible oil products, so that some of the effects of food *rationing continued well beyond 1945. Price controls also continued, in part because rationing's influence on price stability was being removed from the marketplace. In Canada, controls over both pricing and rationing were continued into 1946. On the whole, however, large-scale food rationing ended on June 30, 1945, when, at the request the war food administrator, the program was returned to the oversight of the Department of Agriculture.

May 20th, 2011 at 9:36:16 AM PDT by

Relaxation of Restrictions
After Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945 (known as Victory over Japan Day, or V-J Day), the secretary of agriculture, in conjunction with the price administrator, terminated rationing of meats and fish. Rationing of fats and oils also ended, although the outlook for oil production continued to be low due to reduced hog production in the United States and Canada. Sugar remained under rationing because of continuing shortages, with production being estimated to be 13 percent below prewar levels.

May 20th, 2011 at 9:35:32 AM PDT by

During World War II, the conflicting needs of the American civilian population and its military forces and industries gave rise to various systems for apportioning goods between the two spheres. Rationing of food and critical materials began almost immediately after U.S. entry into the war in 1941, and it became one of the defining aspects of everyday life on the home front. Industries, which were as deeply affected by rationing as were individuals, sometimes discontinued the manufacture of consumer goods due to having insufficient access to needed materials. Shortages also led some businesses to embrace programs of self-rationing in order to spread their limited goods as far as possible in an equitable manner.

May 20th, 2011 at 9:31:39 AM PDT by

each state would give people land to plant seeds for fruits and vegetables, the seeds were given to the people to plant,"Victory Gardens" were the main source for food during world war 2

May 20th, 2011 at 9:31:08 AM PDT by

Food rationing had its positive counterpart in a public campaign to encourage the planting of gardens as a means to supplement the civilian diet with fresh vegetables. By 1945, an estimated twenty million households had established "victory gardens."

May 20th, 2011 at 9:23:52 AM PDT by

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