✅ SOLVED 1941 General Electric Brass Tag. What's its purpose?

[testing123]

Found this June 1941 GE brass tag on the mud a few days ago. Any idea of its purpose and also any possible value? I couldn't find much online about it.

Front reads:

Headquarters for Electrical Measurement
West Lynn Works
Quality Month
June, 1941

Back:
Heads Up For Quality
GE Logo

Thanks for any help you can provide!

 

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[Icewing]

I'd guess it's just a key fob, GE made a lot of various key and watch fobs back in the day.

 

[vpnavy]

Until someone pipes in - I searched Google and found badge but no coin - maybe a keepsake award for exceeding a goal? Anyway - at least you now know the company may have been in Massachusetts...

1940's Worker Photo Id Badge General Electric Co West Lynn Works Ma
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[testing123]

Will try another bump for today

 

[DeepseekerADS]

On large construction sites prior to the emergence of card readers, when we entered or exited the security gates, we "brassed in and brassed out" with simple numbered brass "tokens" to account for our entrance/exit.

I go along with vpnavy on his comment, but there's no pic or unique numbers on the token you have.

Also over the 40 years and 67 projects I worked, every once in a while at various jobsites we'd receive key fobs similar to yours.

So, I go with key fob.

 

[Scrapple]

One thing I love about this forum is the breadth of knowledge of the members. I've always said, "Somebody Knows SOMEBODY", meaning that, in this case, even if you personally don't, you may know someone in the area whose who's Dad or Grandad worked for that GE plant at that time and might recognize it. But somebody knows somebody who knows something about even the most obscure item. (While they're still alive to tell about it.)

Also, I wonder how many of these type of things from that era were pitched in to scrap metal drives to help the war effort, so are fairly rare at this point?

 

[testing123]

Thanks everyone! Looks like we got this one solved!!

Scrapple, you from the PA/NJ area? I've heard about people eating said scrapple, but never have myself (originally from south Jersey).

 

[Scrapple]

You're from South Jersey and you've Never eaten Scrapple!? How far south? Am originally from South Jersey, farm country before the building boom -- hardly recognize my home area anymore when I visit... Now living on Delmarva Peninsula. Try scrapple. Great when cooked right!

 

[Scrapple]

Not to "beat a dead horse", as the (rather horrible) saying goes, but the more I think about it... Don't let the human resources who are still with us, who's knowledge and memories are intact, or can be jarred, escape into oblivion upon losing them! When finding such a local find, visit the local churches, nursing homes, VFWs, American Legions, etc. Yes, takes time and patience! But, there is so much historical knowledge there, just begging to be tapped! Let's don't lose it!

(And now I just have to go out to a store to get some scrapple to fry up. Well, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!, testing 123!! [a la Margot Ledbetter, if you know who I mean...])

 

[testing123]

With the WWII generation slowly disappearing, just imagine how much history and stories we will lose.

I was from the Hammonton area, but moved about 20 years ago. Still get back once a year or so. I'll tell you what, next time I'm down that way, some scrapple will be on my plate... in your honor!

 

[BullBat]

I searched for the importance of the West Lynn Works of General Electric, especially since your piece had a 1941 date. The plant produced the first American jet engine for the U.S. Army Air Corps, the work starting that year with a completed unit by the following year.

The design of the engine was provided by Great Britain before the U.S. had committed to the war in December, 1941. This article, in paragraph two, explains why Great Britain, fearing for what was already happening in Europe, offered it to the U.S. ( http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4306/ch3.htm ) It also explains why security at the plant would have been ramped up by June, 1941 and why your tag has historical significance.