Show toy banks that performed when deposit was made alade between the years 1865 and 1900 the toy makers of america produced some types of mechanical 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 themselves 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 |