Country of Origin: United States
Dimensions:
Overall: 0.64 x 10.8 x 20.96cm (1/4in. x 4 1/4in. x 8 1/4in.)
Materials:
Cardboard.
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.
Gift of Raymond R. Reines. Dedicated to the Berzac Family, in honor of Team NASA.
