Bingham Bulletin | 1947-06-13 | Page 7 | Toy Banks that Performed When Deposit was Made

Toy Banks That Performed When Deposit Was Made Between the years 1865 and 1900, the toymakers of America produced pro-duced some 200 types of mechanical mechan-ical toy banks, atop which figures would perform when a coin was inserted and a lever pressed, says Collier's. The more ingenious ones were those whose figures themselves them-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 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.