Show Toy Banks That Performed When Deposit Was Made Between the years 1865 and 1900 the of America pro pro- produced produced some types of mechanical mechanical mechanical ical toy banks atop which figures would perform when a coin was inserted and a lever pressed says Colliers The more ingenious ones were those whose figures them them- themselves themselves selves deposited the coins In one a baseball group the coin was placed in the hand of the pitcher who then hurled the ball coin which was missed by bythe bythe bythe the batter and disappeared in the catcher In another a Negro boy standing in the door of a cabin turned a somersault and kicked the coin into a slot under the roof I |