(DESIGN GELDPRINTS) Decorative Geldrints A Collection of Ov

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(DESIGN--GELDPRINTS.) Decorative Geldrints. A Collection of Over 100 Attractively Designed Official Colored Geldprints. Volume 1 [all published?]. Mounted samples on recto and verso. 8vo, plates and booklet with explanatory text and advertisements laid into publisher's green board folder with ties, separated at spine, a bit worn. New York: A. Broun, circa 1931

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Geldprints were temporary war-related money issued by the officials of various cities after World War I; they were designed by artists and resemble large poster stamps. By the late 1920s, geldprints were actively collected as artwork and there was a Decorative Gelpprint Society and an exhibition of Official Geldprints in New York City. The designs here range from traditional to modernist.