I have not been able to locate much useful info on this company yet. But it was only $1.00 at my local Habitat. I have found one other but only inscribed on one side. Must have had a company owner change at the time this was made. ("Kirby/UTT")
If you don’t get any hits on here, I’ll ask at my coin club meeting. There is a guy there who is heavy into the Maryland tokens like this.
I have one somewhere with just the UCC. I think I may have gotten it from Littleton when I was a teenager.
It's called a pickers check,you will find quite a few of them on ebay bay.most farms used the as well as can ingredients companies. For every bushel of tomatoes you picked you get a check. Same for crab pickers, you pick a lb of crab meat you get paid in checks. Tomatoes were canned all over the area I live in....also on Maryland eastern shore. Most farms or canning companies had their names in bossed the brass check.
Very interesting. Were these also known as chits? I've heard that terminology elsewhere when referenced to getting paid this way.
Yes they were used in all sorts of packing , farming, oysters, crabs, tobacco, all around my area were farms from Annapolis up to where BWI is located. Marlboro country starts right down the road from me! Tobacco barns still stand where the crop was dried.
@tommyc03 This webpage shows some tokens also. Read the descriptions until you see it. I want to share this webpage with you - http://www.unicornbookshop.com/trappehistory/artifacts-4.html
Thank you, very interesting. I'll need to go back and read up some more but I saw the photos of the various tokens.
