Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Duro Pattern & Mold Co.
- Summary
- This original key unlocks the coin compartment on a Mercury model metal bank manufactured by Duro Pattern & Mold Co. of Highland Park (Detroit), Michigan 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. The key opened a hatch on the underside of the bank through which the coins could be retrieved.
- 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
- A20110028002
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA
- Materials
- Metal
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 2.2 × 1.6 × 0.3cm (7/8 × 5/8 × 1/8 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_A20110028002
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f900aced-8e51-4222-9ba4-c65ae8c415c1
