Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Astro Manufacturing Inc.
- Summary
- This Plan-It mechanical bank was created by Astro Manufacturing Inc., a company formed by two brothers, John and Steven Berzac, who left Duro Manufacturing, a maker of mechanical banks, in 1957. The novelty shape of this simple mechanical bank had a large Sun sphere in the center that served as the repository for the coins. Around the sphere, a metal disc featured the orbits of the (then nine) planets, with each planet represented by a colored half-sphere. Turning the ring deposited the coin in the bank.
- Created to be distributed as a premium by local commercial banks, the Plan-It included a place for a small metal plate that could advertise the gifting institution. The name of the bank played off of the product's intention: to encourage saving.
- 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.
- 1962
- Inventory Number
- A20110033000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA
- Materials
- Plastic
- Metal
- Coating
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 22.9 × 22.9 × 12.7cm, 0.7kg (9 × 9 × 5 in., 1.6lb.)
- 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_A20110033000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv93a189c39-7b49-4d1b-97a5-cbf706507975
