The latest additions to the Newman Numismatic Portal are records of token manufacturer Ingle-Schierloh. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger
provided the following report. Thanks. -Editor
Records of Ingle-Schierloh, Token Manufacturer, on Newman Portal
The Ingle-Schierloh Company, a Dayton, OH token manufacturing concern, did business with hundreds of coal mining (and other) companies in
the early 20th century. Collector Billy Campbell acquired unique, old records of Ingle-Schierloh and has made these available to Newman Portal. The
series consists of a main ledger, followed by 11 notebooks which arrange company correspondence alphabetically, by the city of the token-issuing
company.
Combined with the comprehensive token cataloging provided by the site tokencatalog.com, collectors of these
pieces can now access, online, images of the tokens in addition to the correspondence related to their manufacture. This provides a heretofore
unavailable end-to-end view of these numismatic objects and enables further research on the subject.
The community aspect of Newman Portal allows individuals to contribute such content to a centralized repository, and Newman Portal acknowledges
Billy Campbell for sharing these records with the wider numismatic community. Depicted here, courtesy of tokencatalog.com, is a 1-cent cutout token issued by the C. H. Mead Coal Company of East Gulf (WV).
Obverse: C.H. MEAD COAL CO. / 1 / EAST GULF / NO 1 STORE
Reverse: 1 / PAYABLE IN CASH / ON PAY DAYS WHEN DUE TO / EMPLOYEE TO WHOM ISSUED / INGLE-SCHIERLOH CO. / DAYTON, O. / DES. PAT. 75656 / IN MDSE.
ONLY NON TRANSFERABLE ("1" cutout)
Image: Order from C. H. Mead Coal Company for "master metal scrip," from vol. 4 of the Ingle-Schierloh records on Newman Portal
Link to Ingle-Schierloh archives on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/531624
Wayne Homren, Editor
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