WWII Non-Highway Gasoline Ration
Utilitarian Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.41
Description
A booklet containing perforated stamps, or coupons, each for one "R" unit of gasoline "only for non-highway equipment and uses. The booklet is stamped VOID on each page. Its original owner, a resident of Old Town, ME, penciled on the binding that the stamps allowed purchase of "4 Gal. each" and [would be valid?] over a "6 ms. Period." Instructions for use on the inside front cover explain that the value in gallons of gas of one "R" unit could be changed in accordance with "the demands of the war program."