Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Duro Pattern & Mold Co.
- Summary
- This rocket-themed bank is the Duro Mercury mechanical bank. The Detroit-based company Duro Pattern & Mold Co. began producing the Mercury model rocket bank in the early 1950s. Although labeled on its packaging only as a "Rocket Bank," this model was known as the Mercury model. Shaped like a comic-book-style rocket ship, with curved sides and a pointed end, the Duro Mercury bank had a mechanism that allowed the owner to shoot coins (pennies, nickels, or dimes) into a slot in the "nose cone" of the bank. Such banks were made to be distributed by individual bank branches as a part of promotions, as evidenced by the label on its side from the First National Bank of Denver, Colorado.
- Raymond Reines donated this bank to the Museum in 2011.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Raymond R. Reines. Dedicated to the Berzac Family, in honor of Team NASA.
- Inventory Number
- A20110028000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA
- Materials
- Metal
- Coating
- Plastic
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 20.3 × 4.8 × 5.7cm (8 in. × 1 7/8 in. × 2 1/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20110028000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c5503dba-652c-47c5-819d-d2058a6f14ea
