Hi.
I have a smallish, copper-lined book with a lock on the side and the title "Dresden Bank". These were apparently used as piggy banks which could be unlocked only by checking them into the named bank itself.
See these other postings from a coin-collecting group:
Are there standard key blanks for these, once they have been opened?
Thanks for the help. As for the lock-books mentioned in the two links, one is from England's postal service and the other is from a bank.
I'm not sure what period they are from. Maybe the fifties, as there seems to be some plastic in the "Dresdner Bank" cover.
rphillips52 wrote:
Moat of these gimics were 30's and 40's for the nice tin ones. 50's and
60's were usually plastic, and by the 80's this form of advertising was not often seen.Then a astic Dresdner Bank book would probably be a west german cold-war item.
Well you could always ask them:
Just for the record, there have also been many commercially sold moneyboxes with locks. They were sold with a key. Until the 1950's, most were colour-litho'd tinplate (now very collectable) and the range of keys used was quite small. The lock is usually a single bolt with a friction spring. Similar locks and keys were used also on other small boxes, some cheap tea-caddies, attaché cases ... . From the late 1950's a Finnish company, MK, of Helsinki, produced a large range of moneyboxes all using a simple standard key.
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