Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > March 2007 > 2007.03.25 > 01Prev  Next


Yale Wonder Clocks & Automatic Cashier Machines
By Dave Bowers

I am putting the finishing touches on an article for "Mechanical
Music," journal of the Musical Box Society International.  It will
be a detailed coverage of the Yale Wonder Clock, its successor the
Automatic Cashier and Discount Machine, and the peripherally related
Star Trade Register.  All three of these units incorporate a Regina
music box and all three were made in Vermont in the first decade of
the 20th century.

If any reader of this has not been in communication with me and
knows of any existing examples of the above, I would be grateful for
information and can include it if received by tomorrow evening, March
26th.  Need this basic info:

1. Type of machine.
2. Information on metal plate on front (if a Yale Wonder Clock),
   or serial number on a label.
3. Serial number on bedplate of music box.
4. Denomination, metal (usually but not always aluminum), diameter in
   10ths of a millimeter of any metal tokens dispensed by the machine;
   these also have the machine number stamped on them.
5. Any information as to original location or background.

Thanks to those who have already contributed, and thanks in advance to
anyone with new information.

Best wishes,
Dave Bowers


(Message sent Sun 25 Mar 2007, 12:04:59 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Automatic, Cashier, Clocks, Machines, Wonder, Yale

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page