Coal script and some brass checks.

[bdingess]

Found this company script and brass checks around Sharples WV. The script is from the New River Coal co 1943 and Sharples Bend Coal co but it has no date.

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

Nice find. My grandfather worked in the Beardsfork WV. mine and lived in a company house. My mother used their script to buy lunch in high school. She said the script she used was a red pressed cardboard plastic coated like material that looked like a bingo chip. If you used the script outside of the company store, the stores would charge a extra fee, that is even if the store would take it.