Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Duro Pattern & Mold Co.
- Summary
- This original box accompanies the Duro Mercury mechanical bank. The Detroit-based company 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.
- 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
- A20110028001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA
- Materials
- Cardboard
- Coating
- Dimensions
- Overall: 0.64 x 10.8 x 20.96cm (1/4in. x 4 1/4in. x 8 1/4in.)
- 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_A20110028001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9949c462a-3354-4197-900b-c3416b2323cc
