I think that the red stamps were for meat, and the blue stamps were for canned vegatables. Our family converted our back yard into a Victory Garden and we raised vegatables. Our next door neighbor converted his garage into a chicken coop so we traded vegetables for Chickens > I have three World War 2 ration books, two of which still contain > "stamps." These were in my mothers "things." As I was a 12-14 yr. old > at the time I do not remember which stamps were for what. I would like > to put what information I can with these and include them in my > personal/family history collection. I remember that canned goods, meat, > sugar and shoes were rationed using stamps. > WAR RATION BOOK TWO does not have a date nor does it designate what > type of goods it allows to be purchased. There are two partial pages of > stamps, one blue and one red There would have been 24 stamps to a page. > On the blue page the top row was printed across with 8. The 2nd row > down was printed with 5. The 3rd row down with 2, and the bottom row > with 1. Each stamp also has a letter, vertically on the rows from right > to left they are U V W X Y Z. > The two vertical rows remaining of the red stamps are numbered the > same as the blue stamps. The letter on what would have been the left > edge of the page have the letters M and the one the to the right of it > has a L.