Canteen tokens from German paper mill operations are among the more perishable survivals of industrial-era Werksgeld — issued for internal use, spent hard, and rarely preserved. The Neustadt im Schwarzwald facility sat in Baden's Black Forest papermaking corridor, where mills ran shift labor that depended on on-site canteens for meals and goods. Zinc was the practical wartime and interwar substitute for brass or aluminum when those metals were diverted or restricted.
Canteen tokens from German paper mill operations are among the more perishable survivals of industrial-era Werksgeld — issued for internal use, spent hard, and rarely preserved. The Neustadt im Schwarzwald facility sat in Baden's Black Forest papermaking corridor, where mills ran shift labor that depended on on-site canteens for meals and goods. Zinc was the practical wartime and interwar substitute for brass or aluminum when those metals were diverted or restricted.