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1926 -
Uncle Sam's Registering Savings Banks - Brochure and Postcard
Added to the
MBCA Sept. 04, 2013 through June 14, 2014 (below was
posted after 2013 convention, removed May 19, 2014 after articles in Banker)
Added to the MBCA February 03, 2013 to September 03, 2013 Pay Phone Bank advertising image from 1926 Riemann, Seabrey Co., jobber catalog, page 70. Butler Bros, 1910 advertising images (catalog page 32) for Calamity (Football), William Tell, Bad Accident, and Teddy and the Bear. 1948 Meyer shows Vicky's brother, Lawrence, how to operate one of the 200 banks. Reproduction Banks advertised in TRUE THE MAN'S MAGAZINE — Nov. 1961. Reproduction Banks advertised by F.A.O. Schrarz — Christmas, 1962. 1980 They Pay Big Money For Banks, P.B. Auction, Miami Herald. Members pages Boy on Trapeze *Calibration* by John Feather 1969 Convention Minutes 1970 Convention Minutes 1981 Workshop - Economic Outlook for bank collecting as an investment 1981 Convention Minutes 1991 Convention Minutes 2012 Banker Questionnaire, PDF 2012 April BANKER, PDF 2012 August BANKER, PDF 2012 December BANKER, PDF Added to the MBCA web since July 16, 2012 1968 Old Mechanical Banks - Mark Haber, Manuscript, 1956 One Penny for the Show! - American Home Magazine, 1933 What About the Banks? - The American Legion Monthly, Article - information about banks in 1933 that you will not see elsewhere on the M.B.C.A. web. 1959 Scans of Calumet Baking Powder Jobber Want Book - photo of 3 Calumet banks. 1976 Sears Catalog - Americana Mechanical Benny Banks, 13 copies of original banks, 1 copied from previous reproduction. 1978 - "Mechanical Bank" News Report, Antique Toy World Article. 1978 Banking Ways and Daze - Antique Toy World Article. 1980 - Banks bring big money, P. B. Auction, Antique Toy World Article. Auction prices were updated and include the Al Winick collection (98 lots sold for $1,491,201). Members pages 2012 Convention Questionnaire, Text below added to top of home page in November 2012 The M.B.C.A. would like to express our deepest sympathy to all who have been affected by the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. We hope that you, your families and friends are safe and well. Added to the
MBCA web since March 03, 2012 (click
here to see previous additions)
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1940
- Magazine of OLD GLASS -
Two Glass Banks
1940
-
Magazine ANTIQUES - For Indian
Pennies, H. L. Durrell
1948 - The Springfield Republican - Ted Johnson,
Collector
1949 - Mechanical Penny Bank Exchange Bulletin -
Robert S. Greenfield
1950
- Earl Romey - Pricing list of 90
Mechanical Banks
1950 - Rudolf
Salvatore -
Providence Sunday Journal
Article
1951
- Henry W. Miller
-
1951
Price Listing, Banks bought and sold
1951 -
John Meyer -
Price Guide
1951 - Mark Haber
- Offers banks for sale
1952 - Collectors Meeting at Yando Home - Rudolph Salvatore mailing
1952 - Andrew Emerine
- Letter to Edward T. Richards
1982 - Ed Mosler
Collection Sale - Antique Toy World pages
1988
- Perelman Toy Museum Sold -
Maine Antique Digest
1991 - Bill Norman Collection at Auction - Price List
Press articles reporting on the Bill Norman Collection
Auction.
Antique Tow World - Preview — September, 1991
Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 1991
Antiques and The Arts Weekly — October 4, 1991
Maine Antique Digest — November 1991
Antique
Toy World — November 1991
/Foundry section of the MBCA web was updated with information
provided by Fritz Kokesh.
12/02/2010 total added above is 101 pages and 14.384mb, 119 files
November
01, 2010
Average
Selling Prices
for Mechanical Banks sold
at Auction
1977 Edwin H. Mosler -
Banks,
Making a Game of Moneysaving
Collecting Mechanical Banks -
Early American Life, Feb. 1975
1968 Philadelphia Bulletin Antique Toy Museum Article
- Leon Perelman
1961 Price
list of Mechanical Banks available at attractive prices - Frank L.
Ball
William & Lena Roup and Floyd H. Griffith
- Photos
1954 Hand
Drawn Card - E. Curro
1952
Price Guide including gradations of prominent authors
-
Henry W. Miller
Original advertising image scans for:
Football / Darkey Watermelon (1883)
Locomotive (1883)
Locomotive
(1887-8)
Paddy
and the Pig (1883)
Presto
09/28/2010 - added 46 pages and 4486k, 33 files
Members Section Additions Include:
MBCA BANKERS from
April,
August, and
December of 2009
MBCA Scrapbook, 2004 Historians Project, 1958-82 (1,139 pages, 35 files, 160mb)
May
24. 2010
Public Section Additions Include:
1849 -
Something New, Cast Iron Store
1866 - Shepard Iron Works, Buffalo NY
- Advertisement
1940 Recordo Coin Safe -
December advertising card,
1946
Simmons Coin Bank Collection - Clarence T.
Simmons of
Des Moines Iowa,,
1965 The Antiques Journal - The Toy Banks, an
American Heritage
1970s Perelman
Museum - America's Childhood Revisited,
1971 Long
Island Antique Show banks on Spenders - Newsday
1971 Antiques Journal - Historic Stoner's Store
1987
Hang Seng Bank - Annual Report, Hong Kong
1985
Banking on Change -
Toronto Dominion Bank
J. & E. Stevens
Co., Royalty Agreements
-
1876
National & Magic,
1877
Lilliput & Yankee Notion,
1878
Pelican,
1880 Mule Entering Barn.
1883
Gymnast,
1883 Eagle
and Eaglets,
1884 Cabin,
1884 Multiplying,
1886 Professor
Pug Frog 1,
1886 Professor Pug Frog 2,
1886 Bread Winner,
1888
Watch Dog Safe.
J. & E. Stevens
Co., -
June 15,
1905 letter - Glastonbury Conn. High School.
Members Section Additions Include:
In the European Tin Money
Box section -
Bing Brothers, Metalware Factory, Nuremberg —
short version, 21 pages, 1811kb pdf,
Bing Brothers, Metalware Factory, Nuremberg —
long version, 94 pages, 4403kb pdf.
January 09, 2009
Members Section Additions Include:
6-1/2
hours of videos including convention Seminars from 1988, 1989, 1990, &
1991 plus miscellaneous videos featuring Ed Mosler, US Savings Bonds, PENNY LANE
the Movie, Freedmans Bank, Bill Norman collection, Athelstan Speilhaus, Bill
Bertoia, Leon Weiss, Steckbeck Collection, and the Steckbeck Collection at
Morphy Auction.
1,133 pages from
scrapbooks
maintained by M.B.C.A. Historians from 1958
through 1971 (tabloid
size pages) and 1971 through 1982 (letter size pages) have
been indexed and posted in the members only section -
click
here for 1958 to 1971,
click
here for 1971 to 1982.
User Name & Password for Members — See December
BANKER - Page 4.
M.B.C.A. web content is currently over
9,300 pages (if printed on 8-1/2" x 11" pages) and 5.6 GB. The home page had
been accessed 205,648 times since April 6, 1999.
According to Netcraft data, the total number of
websites as of January 2009 is
223,848,494
(224 million).
According to dataopedia.com, this web ranked
near the middle of the top one million most visited web sites (99.7% of web
sites are less popular than
www.mechanicalbanks.org).
April 6, 2009
The Mechanical
Bank
Collectors of
America
web is 10 years old today. If 2009 content was printed on
8½" x 11" paper
you would have 8270 pages (410mb if saved to disk) of
text and photos from select reference
material, newspaper clippings, magazine
articles, auction prices, and correspondence — all
related to Antique Mechanical Banks.
Public Section Additions Include:
Mechanical Bank
Reseller Advertising from 1876 through
1936. Scanned from original jobber catalogs. 158 images, 141 banks, 32mb. Linked
alphabetically,
chronologically,
and from bank names in Table Of
Contents.
William Ferguson
- text from
1940s BANK NOTES mailed to collectors.
Richard M. Lederer
- text from 1940s manuscripts and letters.
John Meyer
- 1940 letter from Hubley Manufacturing Co.
J. & E. Stevens
Co. - 1884 Multiplying Bank Royalty Agreement.
Helen
Situks - 1940 research, Index of American Design.
Charles M Henn -
Eagle and Eaglets Bank.
Bankers Make a
Hobby of Toy Banks -
1940s -
The
Sun's Rays.
Seamen's Bank
For Savings - ESQUIRE.
Jesse
Perlman Collects Children's Banks - July 19, 1946.
J. & E. Stevens Co. Banks -
April 1947,
The Spinning Wheel
The Old and the
New Penny Banks - June 1955,
Hobbies.
Shoot That Hat Bank -
June 1947,
The Spinning Wheel.
Harry Hartman -
1958
article,
The Spinning Wheel.
Mickey Mouse
Bank - 1982, by Pride Lines.
1936 Christmas Discount.
Shepard
Hardware Co. Banks - by Bill Norman - Collectors Showcase - 1982.
Sherwood's Old Penny Banks - 1936 Christmas Discount.
Sherwood's Old Penny Banks -
1937 Rent Banks.
William Ferguson
- 1941, Litchfield Enquirer.
Thornton C. Thayer - 1940 letter to William F.
Ferguson.
Richard M. Lederer, Jr.
- September 1946 Collectors
Roundup, Part I.
Richard M. Lederer, Jr.
- 1946, Collectors
Roundup, Part III.
Richard Lederer
- 1950, The Thrift Bank, IBM Magazine.
Mrs. Kenneth Stice
- 1952, Local collectors busy.
New Rochelle
Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. - 1553, all this and interest too.
Seamen's Bank for
Savings - 1953, Mechanical Banks made Savings Fun.
Francis L. Ball
- 1953, Never Grew Up.
Andrew Emerine
- 1957, Finest Collection in Nation.
Allen D. Bishop
- 1964, Penny Bank Collector.
Tammany Bank made politicians wince - 1966, Made Politicians Wince.
The Original Cash Machines -
1991
article, Citibank 1991 exhibition.
Members Section Additions Include:
Text
search accuracy has been improved by duplicating most pdf
documents as html pages with links to information in the new html
pages added to the
A-Z Table of Contents.
December
21, 2008
Public Section:
344 mechanical bank patent papers from 1867 through 1950 (1008 pdf pages) posted
and linked to Alphabetical and
Numerical
patent paper listings. Patent numbers linked to the pdf pages were also added to
bank names listed in the Contents
pages and available in
PDF format with thumbnail images of the banks. Links to bank
Auction Prices were added to
Contents pages. Also added:
Thumbnail patent paper images from 1867 through 2003 (pdf -2740kb)
Members Section:
In the European Tin Money
Box section -
Money Boxes from Loren Bolz, part three, 5 pages, 908kb pdf.
MBCA BANKERS from
April,
August, and
December of 2005.
September 08, 2008 - Recent additions include:
1903 Bedtime Story —
THE MONEY BOX,
1958 ORBIS Advertising
using Mechanical Banks,
Sherwood's Old Penny
Banks Ad - American Collector - June 1938 Adv., &
Pittsburgh Post
Gazette - March 24, 1956 - Quaint old toys and banks. J. & E. Stevens
Company
Accounting Ledgers
—
1874-1875 Paint Shop,
1881-1887 Accounts,1887-1891
Accounts,
1891-1895 Accounts,
1895-1898 Accounts,
1901-1904
Foundry,
1903-1904 Accounts,
1922-1928 Summary.
Additions to MBCA Members section include:
2008 Convention Handout - J.&E Stevens Accounting
Ledgers & related material, 83 page PDF, 7092kb,
plus a 9 booklets containing
a total of 220 pages and 30mb of information on European Tin
Savings Banks courtesy of Harald Merklein and Dr. Peter Reus -
1.
Tin
Savings Banks Made by Arndt Bros. Metal Works, 6 pages, 1087kb pdf.
2.
Missionary Savings Banks by Auke de Vries, 5 pages, 476k pdf.
3.
Maienthau & Wolff, Nurenberg Toy Exporter, 8 pages, 2172kb pdf.
4. Money
Boxes from Lorenz Bolz, version one, 24 pages, 2439kb pdf.
5. Money
Boxes from Lorenz Bolz, version two, 27 pages, 2851kb pdf.
6.
Money Boxes Produced by Felix Lasse, Leipzig, version #1, 11 pages, 2668kb pdf.
7.
Money Boxes Produced by Felix Lasse, Leipzig, version #2, 63 pages, 9274kb pdf.
8.
Money Boxes Produced by Georg Zimmermann, Zindorf, 13 pages, 2667kb pdf
9.
Money Boxes Produced by Georg Zimmermann, Zindorf near Nuremberg,
Historic Tin Banks, Bd. 4, 63 pages, 7618kb pdf
December 2, 2007
- Recent additions include: Free
Appraisal - Andrew Emerine - Hobbies, April 1946,
William Treue - 1954 Price List,
1975 NCR Company Advertisment - with 1975 Chevrolet Caprice,
auction prices
were updated with 60 new listings and sale prices from the sale of the Steckbeck
collection, and American Collector - September 1938 -
full page scans and
OCR text.
Additions to MBCA Members section include:
1972 Research Project — Mechanical Banks Manufactured in Germany,
Regina Musical Savings Bank, 2007 MBCA Convention Handout, 3,980k pdf,
April 2004,
August 2004, and
December 2004
issues of THE MECHANICAL BANKER.
April 3, 2007 -
Recent additions include: A
www.omnicronelectronics.com new "/foundry" sub-web
that is devoted to the
study of toy banks and the processes used to manufacture them.
It contains articles that
were researched and compiled by Fritz Kokish. The MBCA thanks Fritz Kokish and
Bill Robison for permitting over 150 pages of their material to be available on our web.
Additions to the
Scrapbook section include:
Old Penny Banks -The
Bulletin,
Andrew Enerine - April 1936,
Old Banks
Used In Bond Buying, New York Sun, December 1942,
Old Coin Banks
are Intriguing, New York Sun, March 1945, Andrew
Emerine - Relics - Worth of An Old Penny Bank - March 1946,
Savings Official
Loses Money in Banks - New York Sun, April 1946,
Biggest
Banker In Town - Baltimore Sun, Milton Stark, November 1946,
Cast-iron
Kids: they made saving fun! - 1950,
Richard M. Lederer - The Mechanical Banker - 1950,
Has The "Piggy"
Bank Gone For Good? - 1950,
Don't Save Pennies, Save
Penny Banks - Great Guns - January 1953,
Grandpa's Toys -
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine - December 14, 1958,
A Banker
Shares His Banks - The Spinning Wheel - Jan/Feb 1963,
Mechanical Banks
Featured in Museum - Collector's Weekly - August 1970,
Today's
Treasures - Wichita Eagle and Beacon - August 1970,
Perelman
Museum - Collector's World - September-October 1970,
Banks That Move -
Perelman Museum Sale - Americana - 1989.
Additions to Members section include:
MBCA BANKERS from
April,
August, and
December of 2003.
October 15, 2006
- Recent additions include: Pages from J & E Stevens Co. catalogs -
1906 Export and
No. 51, Banks of 19th
Century - National City Bank of New York,
Bert Whiting - Jonah and
the Whale - National Antiques Review - Oct. 1970, plus
L. C. Hegarty
"Garage Sale" auction catalog with prices realized from 1973 (thanks
Dr. Z). Bank photo
slideshow - 60 second interval,
20 second interval,
2 second interval (20 & 2
second interval require high speed internet connection).
Additions to Members section include: a 74 page
(6,810k) pdf format booklet distributed at the 2007 MBCA Convention -
Betty & John Feather — Scrapbook + copies of miscellaneous early material
and the
March 1973 MBCA BANKER.
These links were added to web May 22, 2006; Recent additions include expansion of
Auction Prices to
include banks sold by Bertoia Auctions, Morphy Auctions and RSL Auctions,
Walter Hoover - Home
Bankers (1947),
Michael Sheridan -
City's Piggy Bank Buff (1970),
Banks Guide U.S. History
(1972), Flip! Flop!
It's in the Bank (1972),
The Toy Man - Leon
Perelman (1973),
1976 Bank
Purchases Prof's "Old Friends" (1976), and
Colonel I. A. Long
(1981).
Additions to MBCA web Members Section:
BANKERS from 2002 - April, August, & December. Select material distributed to
members at conventions (pdf format): Connecticut Toys, Mark Haber Lectures,
Cromwell Iron Toy Industry, Louis Hertz Manuscript, MBCA History by Ted
Richards, Lissting of J&E Stevens Banks, Judd banks - 2003 Seminar Booklet,
Patented Banks - 2003 Handout, Stevens Foundry by Bob McCumber, and Philadelphia
Banks - 2003 Seminar Booklet
February 05 (o/a) - APRIL 2002 BANKER
March
- AUGUST 2002 BANKER
- DECEMBER 2002 BANKER
March 12, 2002 - PDF Pages folder in Members section.
Haber Lectures - from MBCA 2002 Convention
Hertz 1947 - from MBCA 2002 Convention
Judd Banks Seminar - from MBCA 2002 Convention
Patented Mechanical Banks - from MBCA 2003 Convention
Philadelphia Banks - from MBCA 2003 Convention
MBCA History, Ted Richards, 1963 - from MBCA 2004 Convention
additional pdf from 1995.
LINKS BELOW WERE POSTED ON DECEMBER 17th, 2005
Oct. 28, 2005=
"Grandfather's Piggy
Bank", RELICS Magazine, April 1970
Oct. 28, 2005=
Review of Mrs. Bellows
book, New York Sun, Aug. 31, 1940
Oct. 29, 2005=
Review of Hertz
Manuscript, New York Sun, July 25, 1947
Oct. 30, 2005=
Laurence Johnson,
Syracuse Herald-American, Feb. 1, 1953
Oct. 30, 2005=
2,000 Year-old Alms Box, Times,
Aug. 16, 1938
Oct. 30, 2005=
Wesley Yando, The
Providence Sunday Journal, March 30, 1952
Oct. 30, 2005=
William Ferguson,
Gramercy Graphic, Jan. 1959
Oct. 30, 2005=
William Ferguson, Gramercy Graphic, Feb. 2005
Sept.05, 2005 - photos of -- Woodpecker, Bear Slot in Chest, copper oxidized, British Lion (tin), Scotchman (tin), Pin in HighCharr - Pattern, Bill E. Grinn - bronze,
April 1, 2005 -
Recent additions to the public scrapbook section include:
Banks exhibited at Camden Trust Co.
in 1966, Andrew Emerine,
Covert Hegarty, and
Hubert Whiting.
Additions to the members section include:
Leon Perelman's speech from 1966 MBCA Convention,
April 1981 issue of THE BANKER, and club publications from
1999 and
2000.
MBCA WEB statistics — 88,912KB of
server space with 4,822 files (each file would produce between 1 and 50+ pages
if printed), 3,237 pictures, and 17,158 hyperlinks/bookmarks.
