***Each war ration book from this collection also comes with a FREE hard acrylic display sleeve to protect your artifact!

When we established Premier Relics as one of the growing leading artifact dealers in the United States we wanted to bring authentic, researched, and museum-grade artifacts to the general public. This ‘LOT COLLECTION’ was created on the basis of providing real and authentic relics from the past at EXTREMELY affordable prices! When purchasing an artifact from our ‘Lot Collection’ you will receive one randomly selected artifact from the lot (group) of relics. This relic may slightly vary from the one artifact from the same collection pictured but is extremely similar.

This WWII era U.S. home front war ration book was heavily used and shows multiple signatures, stamps, and wear. These books were completely used and the covers were saved a remembrance of these hard times of war. Sheets and books varied and were changed as they expired as to not allow anyone to over buy or consume particular goods.

Ration Stamps during WWII:

Ask anyone who remembers life on the Home Front during World War II about their strongest memories and chances are they will tell you about rationing. You see, the war caused shortages of all sorts of things: rubber, metal, clothing, etc. But it was the shortages of various types of food that affected just about everyone on a daily basis.

Food was in short supply for a variety of reasons: much of the processed and canned foods was reserved for shipping overseas to our military and our Allies; transportation of fresh foods was limited due to gasoline and tire rationing and the priority of transporting soldiers and war supplies instead of food; imported foods, like coffee and sugar, was limited due to restrictions on importing.

Because of these shortages, the US government’s Office of Price Administration established a system of rationing that would more fairly distribute foods that were in short supply.  Every American was issued a series of ration books during the war. The ration books contained removable stamps good for certain rationed items, like sugar, meat, cooking oil, and canned goods. A person could not buy a rationed item without also giving the grocer the right ration stamp.  Once a person’s ration stamps were used up for a month, she couldn’t buy any more of that type of food.  This meant planning meals carefully, being creative with menus, and not wasting food. More than 8,000 ration boards across the country administered the program.