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 inthe early 20th century. Collector Billy Campbell acquired unique, old records of Ingle-Schierloh and has made these available to Newman Portal. Theseries consists of a main ledger, followed by 11 notebooks which arrange company correspondence alphabetically, by the city of the token-issuingcompany.

Combined with the comprehensive token cataloging provided by the site tokencatalog.com, collectors of thesepieces can now access, online, images of the tokens in addition to the correspondence related to their manufacture. This provides a heretoforeunavailable 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 acknowledgesBilly 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