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Added after March 03, 2012          User Name & Password for Members — See April BANKER - Page 4. Added between August 07, 2011 and March 03, 2012 Public Section Additions Include: Secor Cast Iron Train - article from 1968 Toy and Train Quarterly, J. & E. Stevens Co. - 1910 postcard, Cast Iron Stores - New York City, 1849 and 1862, Dime Pistol Bank Advertising         A. C. McClurg & Co.'s Catalog of Holiday and Fancy Goods — 1911-1912,         Cabin, Trick Dog (6 part base) & Indian Shooting Bear         advertising A. C. McClurg & Co.'s — 1911-1912, 1968  Still and Mechanical Banks - The Questers 1977  Rare Penny Banks - Joel Slater's ANTIQUES NEWS Article 1978  John Wright Co. - Reproduction banks, brochures & prices 1993  Lux Clock - Is you is, or is you ain't my Mechanical bank? 1994  A Penny Saved - Traditional Home Holiday      The MBCA on , Penny Lane, Bless Us All, Ed Mosler, and                                        Steckbeck Collection - part 1,  part 2, & part 3.   Members Section Additions Include: In the European Tin Money Box section -       Saalheimer & Strauss, Nuremberg 6 pages, 900kb pdf, and       Money Boxes by Saalheimer & Strauss, Nuremberg, 26 pages, 4,920kb pdf.   Added after August 07, 2011 (page count) Jigsaw Puzzles: Puzzles                           08-13-11    08-08-11   09/18  10/11   12/23 01/23/12  03/04 Horse Race              9                             104     107      118      124      128 Collage-1                88                             117     123      134      143      148  Collage-2                58                            101      102     108       119      115 Mamma Katz          89               86          104     109     118       122      127   Mikado                  124             119         141     144     156       164      170 MBCA logo            319            313          490     509     521       575      585 Panorama             134           133           145     149     157       163      167 Fortune Savings   122            118         129      134     142       146      151 Frog Pond             123             122        129      133     141       145      149 Lion Hunter             91               90        104      108     118       122      126 Sewing Machine   117            114        129      134     143       148      152 Dark Town               78              77        102      109     121       132      136 Mason                    111            110       116      119     132       136      139 Picture Gallery       125            118       134      141     153       157      161 Stevens Ledgers     33            32           48        52       60         63        67 Stevens 1939         111            110       118     122     130        137     142 Mason Trade Card   126           124       133     138     147        152     157 Picture Galley Card  140          138       151     157     169        174     180 Eagle Eaglets Card    52            51         65       71        80         85       89 Base Ball Card           50            50         63       71       80         84        89                                           09/20/11  10/11  12/23  01/22  03/04  04/06 05/17  Penny Lane =                         193     398    786   1024   1200   1775  2492 Banks with 1986 soundtrack   78     184    640     907   1193   1726  2315 Mosler Interview                     34      112    381    582      891   1404  1820 Steckbeck part 1                     38      127    455    607      941   1329  1681 Steckbeck part 2                     18        86    335    525      913   1287  1654 Steckbeck part 3                     13        92    330    515      861   1251  1590                                                          1002  2927  4160    6001   8796 11551 HOME PAGE VIEWS Dec. 17, 2009 = 204009 Nov. 01, 2110 = 227356 Jan. 26, 2011 = 237239 Feb. 20, 2011 = 240000 Mar. 27, 2011 = 243992 May 03, 2011 = 248000 July 14, 2011 = 256637 Aug. 06, 2011 = 259209 Sep. 17, 2011 = 263788 Oct. 11, 2011 = 266405 Dec. 23, 2011 = 275311 Jan. 22, 2012 = 279009 Feb. 18, 2012 = 282480 Mar. 04, 2012 = 298603 Mar. 16, 2012 = 300000 Apr. 16, 2012 =  302729 May. 17, 2012 = 307219

 

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March 26, 2011
1940 - Magazine of OLD GLASS - Two Glass Banks
1940 - Magazine ANTIQUES - For Indian Pennies, H. L. Durrell
1948 - The Springfield Republican - Ted Johnson, Collector
1949 - Mechanical Penny Bank Exchange Bulletin - Robert S. Greenfield
1950 - Earl Romey - Pricing list of 90 Mechanical Banks
1950 - Rudolf Salvatore - Providence Sunday Journal Article
1951 - Henry W. Miller - 1951 Price Listing, Banks bought and sold
1951 - John Meyer - Price Guide
1951 - Mark Haber - Offers banks for sale
1952 - Collectors Meeting at Yando Home - Rudolph Salvatore mailing
1952 - Andrew Emerine - Letter to Edward T. Richards
1982 - Ed Mosler Collection Sale - Antique Toy World pages
1988 - Perelman Toy Museum Sold - Maine Antique Digest
1991 - Bill Norman Collection at Auction - Price List
     Press articles reporting on the Bill Norman Collection Auction.
             Antique Tow World - Preview — September, 1991
             Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 1991 
             Antiques and The Arts Weekly — October 4, 1991 
             Maine Antique Digest — November 1991
             Antique Toy World — November 1991
/Foundry section of the MBCA web was updated with information provided by Fritz Kokesh.
 12/02/2010 total added above is 101 pages and 14.384mb, 119 files


November 01, 2010
Average Selling Prices for Mechanical Banks sold at Auction
1977 Edwin H. Mosler - Banks, Making a Game of Moneysaving 
Collecting Mechanical Banks - Early American Life, Feb. 1975 
1968 Philadelphia Bulletin Antique Toy Museum Article - Leon Perelman 
1961 Price list of Mechanical Banks available at attractive prices - Frank L. Ball 
William & Lena Roup and Floyd H. Griffith - Photos 
1954 Hand Drawn Card - E. Curro 
1952 Price Guide including gradations of prominent authors - Henry W. Miller 
Original advertising image scans for:
     Football / Darkey Watermelon (1883)
     Locomotive (1883)
     Locomotive (1887-8)
     Paddy and the Pig (1883)
     Presto
09/28/2010 - added 46 pages and 4486k, 33 files
Members Section Additions Include:
MBCA BANKERS from April, August, and December of 2009
MBCA Scrapbook, 2004 Historians Project, 1958-82 (1,139 pages, 35 files, 160mb)

May 24. 2010
          Public Section Additions Include: 
1849 - Something New, Cast Iron Store
1866 - Shepard Iron Works, Buffalo NY - Advertisement
1940 Recordo Coin Safe - December advertising card,
1946 Simmons Coin Bank Collection - Clarence T. Simmons of Des Moines Iowa,,
1965 The Antiques Journal - The Toy Banks, an American Heritage
1970s Perelman Museum - America's Childhood Revisited,
1971 Long Island Antique Show banks on Spenders - Newsday
1971 Antiques Journal - Historic Stoner's Store
1987 Hang Seng Bank - Annual Report, Hong Kong
1985 Banking on Change - Toronto Dominion Bank
J. & E. Stevens Co., Royalty Agreements - 1876 National & Magic, 1877 Lilliput & Yankee Notion, 1878 Pelican, 1880 Mule Entering Barn. 1883 Gymnast, 1883 Eagle and Eaglets, 1884 Cabin, 1884 Multiplying, 1886 Professor Pug Frog 1, 1886 Professor Pug Frog 2, 1886 Bread Winner, 1888 Watch Dog Safe.
J. & E. Stevens Co., - June 15, 1905 letter - Glastonbury Conn. High School.
          Members Section Additions Include:
In the European Tin Money Box section - Bing Brothers, Metalware Factory, Nuremberg — short version, 21 pages, 1811kb pdf, Bing Brothers, Metalware Factory, Nuremberg — long version, 94 pages, 4403kb pdf.

January 09, 2009  
Members Section Additions Include: 
       6-1/2 hours of videos including convention Seminars from 1988, 1989, 1990, & 1991 plus miscellaneous videos featuring Ed Mosler, US Savings Bonds, PENNY LANE the Movie, Freedmans Bank, Bill Norman collection, Athelstan Speilhaus, Bill Bertoia, Leon Weiss, Steckbeck Collection, and the Steckbeck Collection at Morphy Auction.
 
      1,133 pages from scrapbooks maintained by M.B.C.A. Historians from 1958 through 1971 (tabloid size pages) and 1971 through 1982 (letter size pages) have been indexed and posted in the members only section - click here for 1958 to 1971, click here for 1971 to 1982.
  User Name & Password for Members — See December BANKER - Page 4.
 
M.B.C.A. web content is currently over 9,300 pages (if printed on 8-1/2" x 11" pages) and 5.6 GB. The home page had been accessed 205,648 times since April 6, 1999. According to  Netcraft data, the total number of websites as of January 2009 is 223,848,494 (224 million). According to dataopedia.com, this web ranked near the middle of the top one million most visited web sites (99.7% of web sites are less popular than www.mechanicalbanks.org).
 
April 6, 2009
The Mechanical Bank Collectors of America web is 10 years old today.  If 2009 content was printed on 8½" x 11" paper you would have 8270 pages (410mb if saved to disk) of text and photos from select reference material, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, auction prices, and correspondence — all related to Antique Mechanical Banks.
Public Section Additions Include: 
Mechanical Bank Reseller Advertising from 1876 through 1936. Scanned from original jobber catalogs. 158 images, 141 banks, 32mb. Linked alphabetically, chronologically, and from bank names in Table Of Contents. 
William Ferguson - text from 1940s BANK NOTES mailed to collectors. 
Richard M. Lederer - text from 1940s manuscripts and letters. 
John Meyer - 1940 letter from Hubley Manufacturing Co. 
J. & E. Stevens Co. - 1884 Multiplying Bank Royalty Agreement.  
Helen Situks - 1940 research, Index of American Design.
Charles M Henn - Eagle and Eaglets Bank.
Bankers Make a Hobby of Toy Banks - 1940s - The Sun's Rays. 
Seamen's Bank For Savings - ESQUIRE. 
Jesse Perlman Collects Children's Banks - July 19, 1946. 
J. & E. Stevens Co. Banks -  April 1947, The Spinning Wheel 
The Old and the New Penny Banks -  June 1955, Hobbies. 
Shoot That Hat Bank - June 1947, The Spinning Wheel. 
Harry Hartman -  1958 article, The Spinning Wheel. 
Mickey Mouse Bank - 1982, by Pride Lines.   1936 Christmas Discount. 
Shepard Hardware Co. Banks - by Bill Norman - Collectors Showcase - 1982. 
Sherwood's Old Penny Banks - 1936 Christmas Discount.  
Sherwood's Old Penny Banks -  1937 Rent Banks.  
William Ferguson - 1941, Litchfield Enquirer. 
Thornton C. Thayer - 1940 letter to William F. Ferguson. 
Richard M. Lederer, Jr. - September 1946 Collectors Roundup, Part I. 
Richard M. Lederer, Jr. - 1946, Collectors Roundup, Part III. 
Richard Lederer - 1950, The Thrift Bank, IBM Magazine. 
Mrs. Kenneth Stice - 1952, Local collectors busy.  
New Rochelle Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. - 1553, all this and interest too. 
Seamen's Bank for Savings - 1953, Mechanical Banks made Savings Fun.
Francis L. Ball - 1953, Never Grew Up. 
Andrew Emerine - 1957, Finest Collection in Nation. 
Allen D. Bishop - 1964, Penny Bank Collector. 
Tammany Bank made politicians wince - 1966, Made Politicians Wince. 
The Original Cash Machines - 1991 article, Citibank 1991 exhibition.  
Members Section Additions Include: 
Text search accuracy has been improved by duplicating most pdf
documents as html pages with links to information in the new html
pages added to the A-Z Table of Contents.

December 21, 2008
Public Section:
344 mechanical bank patent papers from 1867 through 1950 (1008 pdf pages) posted and linked to Alphabetical and Numerical patent paper listings. Patent numbers linked to the pdf pages were also added to bank names listed in the Contents pages and available in PDF format with thumbnail images of the banks. Links to bank Auction Prices were added to Contents pages. Also added: Thumbnail patent paper images from 1867 through 2003 (pdf -2740kb)
Members Section:
In the European Tin Money Box section - Money Boxes from Loren Bolz, part three, 5 pages, 908kb pdf.
MBCA BANKERS from April, August, and December of 2005.

September 08, 2008 - Recent additions include: 1903 Bedtime Story — THE MONEY BOX,  1958 ORBIS Advertising using Mechanical Banks, Sherwood's Old Penny Banks Ad - American Collector - June 1938 Adv., & Pittsburgh Post Gazette - March 24, 1956 - Quaint old toys and banks. J. & E. Stevens Company Accounting Ledgers  — 1874-1875 Paint Shop, 1881-1887 Accounts,1887-1891 Accounts, 1891-1895 Accounts, 1895-1898 Accounts, 1901-1904 Foundry, 1903-1904 Accounts, 1922-1928 Summary.
     Additions to MBCA Members section include:  2008 Convention Handout - J.&E Stevens Accounting Ledgers & related material, 83 page PDF, 7092kb, plus a 9 booklets containing a total of 220 pages and 30mb of information on European Tin Savings Banks courtesy of Harald Merklein and Dr. Peter Reus - 
1.  Tin Savings Banks Made by Arndt Bros. Metal Works, 6 pages, 1087kb pdf. 
2.  Missionary Savings Banks by Auke de Vries, 5 pages, 476k pdf. 
3.  Maienthau & Wolff, Nurenberg Toy Exporter,  8 pages, 2172kb pdf. 
4.  Money Boxes from Lorenz Bolz, version one, 24 pages, 2439kb pdf. 
5.  Money Boxes from Lorenz Bolz, version two, 27 pages, 2851kb pdf. 
6.  Money Boxes Produced by Felix Lasse, Leipzig, version #1, 11 pages, 2668kb pdf. 
7.  Money Boxes Produced by Felix Lasse, Leipzig, version #2, 63 pages, 9274kb pdf.
8.  Money Boxes Produced by Georg Zimmermann, Zindorf, 13 pages, 2667kb pdf
9.  Money Boxes Produced by Georg Zimmermann, Zindorf near Nuremberg,
     Historic Tin Banks, Bd. 4, 63 pages, 7618kb pdf

December 2, 2007 - Recent additions include: Free Appraisal - Andrew Emerine - Hobbies, April 1946, William Treue - 1954 Price List, 1975 NCR Company Advertisment - with 1975 Chevrolet Caprice, auction prices were updated with 60 new listings and sale prices from the sale of the Steckbeck collection, and American Collector - September 1938 - full page scans and OCR text.
     Additions to MBCA Members section include: 1972 Research Project — Mechanical Banks Manufactured in Germany, Regina Musical Savings Bank, 2007 MBCA Convention Handout, 3,980k pdf, April 2004, August 2004, and December 2004 issues of THE MECHANICAL BANKER.

April 3, 2007 - Recent additions include: A www.omnicronelectronics.com new "/foundry" sub-web that is devoted to the study of toy banks and the processes used to manufacture them. It contains articles that were researched and compiled by Fritz Kokish. The MBCA thanks Fritz Kokish and Bill Robison for permitting over 150 pages of their material to be available on our web.
     Additions to the Scrapbook section include: Old Penny Banks -The Bulletin, Andrew Enerine - April 1936, Old Banks Used In Bond Buying,  New York Sun, December 1942,  Old Coin Banks are Intriguing, New York Sun, March 1945,  Andrew Emerine - Relics - Worth of An Old Penny Bank - March 1946,  Savings Official Loses Money in Banks - New York Sun, April 1946,  Biggest Banker In Town - Baltimore Sun, Milton Stark, November 1946,  Cast-iron Kids: they made saving fun! - 1950,  Richard M. Lederer - The Mechanical Banker - 1950, Has The "Piggy" Bank Gone For Good? - 1950,  Don't Save Pennies, Save Penny Banks - Great Guns - January 1953, Grandpa's Toys - Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine - December 14, 1958,  A Banker Shares His Banks - The Spinning Wheel - Jan/Feb 1963,  Mechanical Banks Featured in Museum - Collector's Weekly - August 1970,  Today's Treasures - Wichita Eagle and Beacon - August 1970,  Perelman Museum - Collector's World - September-October 1970,  Banks That Move - Perelman Museum Sale - Americana - 1989.
     Additions to Members section include: MBCA BANKERS from April, August, and December of 2003.

October 15, 2006 - Recent additions include: Pages from J & E Stevens Co. catalogs - 1906 Export and No. 51,  Banks of 19th Century - National City Bank of New York,  Bert Whiting - Jonah and the Whale - National Antiques Review - Oct. 1970, plus L. C. Hegarty "Garage Sale" auction catalog with prices realized from 1973 (thanks Dr. Z).  Bank photo slideshow - 60 second interval,  20 second interval, 2 second interval (20 & 2 second interval require high speed internet connection).
     Additions to Members section include: a 74 page (6,810k) pdf format booklet distributed at the 2007 MBCA Convention - Betty & John Feather  — Scrapbook + copies of miscellaneous early material and the March 1973 MBCA BANKER.

These links were added to web May 22, 2006; Recent additions include expansion of Auction Prices to include banks sold by Bertoia Auctions, Morphy Auctions and RSL Auctions, Walter Hoover - Home Bankers (1947), Michael Sheridan - City's Piggy Bank Buff (1970), Banks Guide U.S. History (1972), Flip! Flop! It's in the Bank (1972), The Toy Man - Leon Perelman (1973), 1976 Bank Purchases Prof's "Old Friends" (1976),  and Colonel I. A. Long (1981).

Additions to MBCA web Members Section: BANKERS from 2002 - April, August, & December. Select material distributed to members at conventions (pdf format): Connecticut Toys, Mark Haber Lectures, Cromwell Iron Toy Industry, Louis Hertz Manuscript, MBCA History by Ted Richards, Lissting of J&E Stevens Banks, Judd banks - 2003 Seminar Booklet, Patented Banks - 2003 Handout, Stevens Foundry by Bob McCumber, and Philadelphia Banks - 2003 Seminar Booklet

February 05 (o/a) - APRIL 2002 BANKER
March                  - AUGUST 2002 BANKER
                           -  DECEMBER 2002 BANKER
March 12, 2002 - PDF Pages folder in Members section.
                                  Haber Lectures - from MBCA 2002 Convention
                                  Hertz 1947 - from MBCA 2002 Convention
                                  Judd Banks Seminar - from MBCA 2002 Convention
                                  Patented Mechanical Banks - from MBCA 2003 Convention
                                  Philadelphia Banks - from MBCA 2003 Convention
                                  MBCA History, Ted Richards, 1963 - from MBCA 2004 Convention
additional pdf  from 1995.

LINKS BELOW WERE POSTED ON DECEMBER 17th, 2005

Oct. 28, 2005= "Grandfather's Piggy Bank", RELICS Magazine, April 1970
Oct. 28, 2005= Review of Mrs. Bellows book, New York Sun, Aug. 31, 1940
Oct. 29, 2005= Review of Hertz Manuscript, New York Sun, July 25, 1947
Oct. 30, 2005= Laurence Johnson, Syracuse Herald-American, Feb. 1, 1953
Oct. 30, 2005= 2,000 Year-old Alms Box, Times, Aug. 16, 1938
Oct. 30, 2005= Wesley Yando, The Providence Sunday Journal, March 30, 1952
Oct. 30, 2005= William Ferguson, Gramercy Graphic, Jan. 1959
Oct. 30, 2005= William Ferguson, Gramercy Graphic, Feb. 2005

Sept.05, 2005 - photos of -- Woodpecker, Bear Slot in Chest, copper oxidized,  British Lion (tin), Scotchman (tin), Pin in HighCharr - Pattern, Bill E. Grinn - bronze,

April 1, 2005 - Recent additions to the public scrapbook section include: Banks exhibited at Camden Trust Co. in 1966, Andrew Emerine, Covert Hegarty, and Hubert Whiting. Additions to the members section include: Leon Perelman's speech from 1966 MBCA Convention, April 1981 issue of THE BANKER, and club publications from 1999 and 2000.
        MBCA WEB statistics — 88,912KB of server space with 4,822 files (each file would produce between 1 and 50+ pages if printed), 3,237 pictures, and 17,158 hyperlinks/bookmarks.

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