Railway pay cheque

[1] In many cases where pay cheques were in use they were often issued to each employee at the start of his employment and retained for the rest of the person's working life with the company.

[2] These had a slightly different use, being more of a system for ensuring the correct pay by 'checking' in and out of the workplace prior to machines being produced for this specific purpose.

Upon returning to the surface, the miner gave his personal tally to the banksman who would pass it on to the time office or the lamp room.

[5] Pay checks and tallies were only marked on one side and were produced in a great variety of shapes, sizes and designs; made typically of brass or zinc, sometimes steel or aluminium.

[5] Pay cheques came in various shapes and sizes, including oval, circular, square, tear-shaped, D-shaped, bone-shaped, rectangular,[4] octangular,[6] Copper, brass, white metal[4] and pewter were in common use.