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Tigers Mobilgas Bank |
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Sportscaster Bob Wagner UCP Bank |
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NEWSLETTER |
October 2021 |
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Premium and Dime Store Baseball
Coin Banks |
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Steven KeyMan |
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By Steven KeyMan |
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Keymancollectibles.com,
and a long time
collector, Steven
KeyMan has more than 30
years of experience in
researching, and
cataloging information
on Baseball
Memorabilia.
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These
Pegasus, Flying Red Horse glass
baseball banks were made
available at Mobilgas service
stations in 1941. With a purchase
of 5 gallons of gas or more, you
could receive a free baseball bank.
The white glass baseball bank with blues raised seams, featured two red
flying horse Mobilgas trademark
logo opposite of one another. Some
banks given away featured a red
baseball team logo opposite of the
Mobilgas red Pegasus. The metal
slot cap on the bottom reads;
Patent Applied For, Heffelfinger
publications, N.Y."
The "Patent Applied For" stamp was
removed from the Mobilgas banks
made in later years. These glass
baseball banks gained popularity
during the 1940s, and seem to have
been made with the same mold as the
Heffelfinger publications bank.
This clear glass "It's a Hit! Ball Bank," might be one. They were sold in
drug and discount stores for about
.30¢ during the mid 1940s.
Advertised as a novel and simple
method for savings, the bank can be
opened and used again.
In 1944, Yankee Products Co. of
Asbury Park, New Jersey, Issued a
pair of glass baseball banks. One
style called a Yank Bank featured
"New York Yankees" in red lettering
on the sweet spot, flanked by Lou
Gehrig's signature on the left, and
Bill Dickey on the right.
The blue stich coin bank was also available lettered with St. Louis
Cardinals in red flanked on each
side by a Cardinal Bird and bat.
Each Bank was offered through the
mail for $1.00 postage paid.
"Compliments Of Your
Atlantic-Dealer" this
"Philadelphia
Athletics" tin baseball bank was an
Atlantic gasoline station premium.
The front features a Connie Mack
facsimile signature, and on the
opposite side the A's White
Elephant with the "J. Chein & Co.
Made In U.S.A." shied Logo.
The manufacturer, J. Chein & Company, was established in 1903 and is best
known for their mechanical, stamped
and lithographed tin toys produced
from the 1930s through the 1950s.
This
humorous tin baseball bank
features the red "Chein Playthings"
logo. The front of the "Official
Ball" reads "The Cushioned Rock
Center" arched above the "Roach"
logo. A spoof of the Reach
trademark and the Official Baseball
specs, "Cushioned Cork Center."
Bellow reads "Made In U.S.A. By
Scalding" in the style of the
Spalding trademark.
Tin toys made by Chein were commonly sold at 5 & 10 stores such as
Woolworths.
The "New-Different"
Baseball
Bank-Game Combination was
advertised in 1948 newspapers for
only .49¢. The plastic regulation
size baseball features a signature
endorsement by Pittsburgh Pirates
radio sportscaster Rosey Rowswell,
and Sealtest Dairy Products
The front of the "Baseball, Bank Game" has a coin-slot to deposit savings,
and a "Play ball" batter-up spins
wheel and play arrow. Game pieces
include; Plastic Ball, Baseball
Diamond-Play box, Innings
Line-Score card, and 8 Pegs.
In 1951 the United Cerebral Palsy
National Sports committee launched
the
Home Run Baseball Bank Project.
Headed by Grantland Rice, dean of
American sportswriters, and Bob
Hall, director of athletics at Yale
university as co-chairman, the UCP
National Sports committee was
comprised of more than 1,500 sports
editors, writers, prominent figures
in the sports world and sportscasters.
All major and minor league baseball parks had played host to leading
sports figures who had introduced
the idea from coast to coast.
Anyone that wanted to contribute
$1.00 or more to United Palsy, New
York (1) NY., received one of these
baseball banks.
 These
1950's tin toy era coin banks
were made by Ohio Art, of Etch A
Sketch fame. The bank features a
white regulation size tin baseball,
atop of a red base that reads
"WORLD CHAMPIONS" in large white
letters. The inner base has the
manufacture credit "Ohio Art Co,"
opposite "Made in U.S.A."
The sweet spot on the lithographed
red & blue stitched baseball reads
"OFFICIAL, LEAGUE BALL" in blue
lettering. With the coin slot at
the top of the baseball, the coin
release is located under the base,
and the metal plug is often
missing.
From 1956-1958 the baseball
autograph coin bank became a
popular gift given away by banks
when opening a savings account.
This
American All Stars bank was
manufactured by Kosta Dana-Barrell
Inc. In 1958 these All Star
baseball coin banks were give away
across the country by banks when
you opened a $5.00 savings account.
This bank featured 10 autographs
and was given away by Fidelity
Federal Savings, Milwood branch
located at 315 S. Burdick St. -
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Team Autograph baseball banks were
also offered into the 1960s. As
described in a 1958 newspaper ad...
"For home or office, souvenir ornament to adorn your desk dresser,
kitchen, sideboard or knickknack
rack. Looks real . . . an exact
replica of a regulation baseball .
. . same size, too! Made of
non-breakable white plastic with
raised hand-painted red stitches .
. . mounted on attractive black
trophy base with coin slot in the
bottom." This
1957 New York Yankees coin bank
features 10 signatures.
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