KATCO Packing Token - Fort Beufort Late 1920 - EXCELLENT Condition
Still doing business Location FORT BEAUFORT, AMATOLA & STORMBERG, EASTERN CAPE, ZA
These brass uniface tokens was used from 1927 to 1938 as means of checking the total daily output of each labourer employed in the making of export boxes - the number of tokens reflecting his pay.
The labourer had a small wooden box beside the table he built the boxes.
On the completion of each box he would call over the white supervisor in charge of the team.
After he had checked the box he would insert one of these tokens into the small box with a hole big enough to take the 23.6mm by 1.3mm token.
If all went smooth (edge) at the end of the day the number of tokens collected reflected his pay.
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