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Not sure why, it was a couple bucks. I think I just liked the 1970s pattern, and it's still in good enough shape to use for it's intended purpose.

Not sure why, it was a couple bucks. I think I just liked the 1970s pattern, and it's still in good enough shape to use for it's intended purpose.

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I was remarking on that yesterday at the antiques show. A vendor had a bunch of cast iron piggy banks that had some metalworks company name on them, probably from the 30s. By the number of them, it was apparent that the company just made them to give away as promos.

We made so much stuff and was so profitable at it, that companies just made useful stuff and gave it away.

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Banks used to have giveaways for people opening new accounts up until the late 1960's or early 1970s. I remember them advertising toasters, clock radios and such. Mechanical banks (like cheap stamped steel kids toys) would be a perfect fit for a kid when their parents opened their first account for them. I was too young and I think I came along long after that kid's mechanical bank fad had gone by. I was a kid in the ceramic piggy bank age.

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I remember the banks giving away stuff. Back home, all of the antique stores are still stocked with those cheap safes, calendars, thermometers, and other garbage giveaways from one of the long-gone local banks.

That was so long ago that the bank's elderly owner would sit outside and just give passerby children candy. Simpler times.

That being said, the antiques show was 99.99999% white people. It was please, thank you, how are you sir everywhere you went.