UWAG Warenbezugsmarke HL

Entertainment goods play equipment was the official name of machines, which were operated as play equipment in restaurants. Basically, in the former GDR devices that are played for money, not operated. In order to be able to correspond to a corresponding need of the population, one allowed 1948 the attachment of machines of the pre-war production, which were accordingly repaired leased to restaurant enterprises commercially and later replaced by newly produced executions and were supplemented. Generally a product of VEB Metallwarenfabrik Luckenwalde called Rudomat.
For the operation of the machines special Wermarken were made and partly individually marked, with mostly in-depth initials of the restaurants or their operators were used. The value of these stamps was 10 pfennigs. They could be purchased in the restaurants. There are a large number of these designs, so that we can only present a few here by way of example. A comprehensive presentation of these machine brands is not yet known to us. Menzel did not include them in his catalog.
The legislator had issued strict rules for the use of the slot machines, which were clearly visible in the premises.
Thereafter, the won tokens were basically exchanged only for goods according to a fixed profit plan. For example:
2 tokens = 1 cigarillo
4 tokens = 1 schnapps or 1 beer
8 tokens = 1 coffee black
10 tokens = 1 sausage or 10 cigarettes