I have no clue what the is token is. I believe it is a Private notgeld issued in Germany. Can anyone help me identify this token and its catalog identification?
Thank you for the help.
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"
- Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I, too, believe that it is probably a German token of the notgeld era, but I did not find anything in Menzel that appeared to match it.
I am, however, uncertain as to what the initials actually are. It could be S.J., J.S., J.S.J., S.J.J., J.J.S., or something else. The connection of the J's could even mean that there is an I. in the mixture.
donmart,
Thank you! I looked through the catalog several times since I posted this request and I still didn't see it!
So after all the speculation of what the initials were, they were a double S for Siemens-Schuckert.
Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966.
Siemens Schuckert was founded in 1903 when Siemens & Halske acquired Schuckertwerke. Subsequently, Siemens & Halske specialized in communications engineering and Siemens-Schuckert in power engineering and pneumatic instrumentation. During World War I Siemens-Schuckert also produced aircraft. It took over manufacturing of the renowned Protos vehicles in 1908. In World War II, the company had a factory producing aircraft and other parts at Monowitz near Auschwitz. There was a workers camp near the factory known as Bobrek concentration camp.
The Siemens Schuckert logo consisted of an S with a smaller S superimposed on the middle with the smaller S rotated left by 45 degrees.[notes 1][1] The logo was used into the late 1960s, when both companies merged with the Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG to form the present-day Siemens AG.
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"
- Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
