The Cash Register I've mentioned.

[MrNewportCustom]

I paid fifty dollars for it about ten years ago. Bought it in Tucson, AZ.

Note how the numbers rise. Not the standard flags: these spin as they go up.

It's a candy store register, so it doesn't ring higher than $3.99. Makes you miss the old days, don't it?

You have to push the $3, 90, and 9 keys all at the same time to ring up the maximum.

Underside of the cash drawer. Apparently, this register was once gray. Date is hard to read, but the last two hand-written digits are "42."

Lee
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Cha-CHING!!

 

[Midnight Palace]

Nice! I like it a lot! Is that dated 1942 on the slip?

 

[Jerekson]

That is one swell piece of vintqage machinery.

Does it still work well, or is it beginning to deteriorate?

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Midnight Palace: As best I can read it, yes, I do believe it's 1942.

Jerekson: Yes, it works very well. The keys move smoothly and the drawer pops open quickly. And the "cha-ching" sound is wonderful! The only thing it doesn't have is the key, so I can't put any tape in it. (The change drawer is to the right in the first picture - I forgot to put it back in while I photographed it.)


Lee
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This is my most prized antique.

 

[Midnight Palace]

Lee,

You might be able to get a key made? I worked at a hardware store years ago and people would bring me locks that they'd lost their key to, and we were able to make a new key based on the grooves on the inside of the lock. Its worth checking out at least.

Gary

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Lee,

You might be able to get a key made? I worked at a hardware store years ago and people would bring me locks that they'd lost their key to, and we were able to make a new key based on the grooves on the inside of the lock. Its worth checking out at least.

Gary

Good idea! And I could use the exercise, too - that thing must weigh more than seventy pounds. lol

I looked inside, once, by removing the bottom plate and sliding the drawer out. It was a mass of metal bars and springs so thick I couldn't see the top. You wouldn't believe the engineering that went into it. It's simply amazing to think that it was designed before computers.


Lee