I’m Keeping These Banks!
Published in the April 2023 Penny Bank Post | Written by Harry Abel
My wife and I are getting older and are building a single floor retirement house. It will not have the storage room our current house has, so we have been thinning out everything including our banks. I came across a few that are a little different and thought I would share them with you.
The first bank is a Recording Bank which I purchased at an antique show when I first started collecting banks over thirty years ago. It has been sitting on my desk ever since. I had it quite a few years before I noticed what it was. The front face is 6 1/4” high, the length is 6 15/16” and the depth is 2”. The back has the same Patent Applied date as all the other Recording Banks I’ve seen. Do you see anything different about it?
This Recording Bank has four steps and all the other ones I’ve seen have five steps. I have never seen another one like it and I don’t know if it was an error or it was decided to add a step or delete a step as some point.
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