Brass Tag

[vondrewvious]

Hello There,
Anybody out there have any good guesse on what this might be? I assume the Del. means Delaware. Contr. ~ Contracting or Controls. Seems strange to me to have Delaware and Buffalo together on a tag. I also assume Buffalo is NY and the 1812 is a number not a year.

Thanks in advance.

 

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[Ramitt]

Your assumptions sound reasonable. I would guess this is either a tool or perhaps meter tag.

 

[PBK]

I'd say it's either a tool check or work check.

A tool check is handed in when a worker receives company-owned equipment in order to perform an assigned task. The tag is later reclaimed when the tools or other items are returned. This allows the company to keep track of its property and determine who is responsible for lost or damaged items.

A work check is handed in to a company clerk at the beginning of a shift or assignment, and then reclaimed when the shift ends or the job is done.

 

[CRUSADER]

I'd say it's either a tool check or work check.

A tool check is handed in when a worker receives company-owned equipment in order to perform an assigned task. The tag is later reclaimed when the tools or other items are returned. This allows the company to keep track of its property and determine who is responsible for lost or damaged items.

A work check is handed in to a company clerk at the beginning of a shift or assignment, and then reclaimed when the shift ends or the job is done.

I'm with the work check

 

[DCMatt]

There is a "Delaware Construction" company doing business in NY, but it's in the wrong end of the state for Buffalo. They've been in business since 1973. Maybe they moved to be closer to Delaware...

I'd say it's a work check tag.

DCMatt

 

[Don in SJ]

I find all the tags like that interesting and it sure would be nice to know possibly the origin and true use of the tags.
Back in the 90's I stumbled upon some road fill that evidently came from the bulldozing down of a factory that I assume was associated with the manufacturing town I was near at the time, Millville NJ. I never figured out which company, nor the age of the tags, but in the road fill I did find a Barber dime, so asuuming the tags date to around turn of the 20th century and maybe in use before 1900.

I am sure I did not clean all of them out, sort of remember getting tired of digging them, maybe this fall I will make a return trip to the site, oh, say 15 years later.

Don

 

[vondrewvious]

Dang!
Thats got to be a world record. Call Guiness book,