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To: greeneyes; stevio
greeneyes said: "We used to give the clerk a penny and get back several Mills. "

I can recall from perhaps around 1960 that some trading stamps, like "Blue Chip Stamps" or "S&H Green Stamps", which were issued by merchants, were marked "Cash Value 1 Mill".

You could collect 1200 Blue Chip Stamps, paste them into a booklet, and redeem them for items in a catalog. You could also exchange them for cash at the rate of $1.20 per book of 1200, or 1 Mill per stamp.

32 posted on 02/09/2012 11:37:21 PM PST by William Tell
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To: William Tell

Oh yeh, I had forgotten all those stamp collections. S & H Green Stamps is what we collected right after I got married IIRC. LOL.

In fact I probably have a few unredeemed in some of the banker’s boxes stuffed in the basement storage area I stored documents in from way back then.


33 posted on 02/09/2012 11:49:30 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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