| I was thinking about cash boxes, their design and | | | | drawer and when the drawer of the cash box was |
| construction. The original cash box was literally that a | | | | opened a built in bell rang. This was the precursor of |
| wooden box carved from a single piece of seasoned | | | | the mechanical cash till which also had a cash drawer |
| wood and with a lid in which cash was stored.. The | | | | and a display of the money taken. A more recent |
| very first cash boxes did not have locks as they had | | | | development of the cash box is that they have |
| not been invented and the valuables inside were | | | | become electronic with a digital display and computer |
| protected by being hidden or kept in a place that was | | | | linked to electronic point of sale equipment. |
| occupied constantly. | | | | Another form of the cash box is the piggy bank which |
| Over the years wood and metal working skills | | | | is used by children to save their pocket money usually |
| developed - the wooden cash box generally increased | | | | in the form of small coins. The designation Piggy, |
| in size as the jointing skills developed. Then the cash | | | | according to Wikipedia derived from pygge which is |
| box was made more secure by the use of metal | | | | the clay that the original money storage jar was |
| banding and the provision of locks although the earliest | | | | manufactured from. In order to remove the saved |
| locks were made of wood. These timber locks were | | | | contents the clay pig had to be broken open |
| not fitted to cash boxes as the keys were very large | | | | destroying it. |
| and resembled a back scrubbing brush with a small | | | | Subsequently wooden piggy banks have been |
| number of wooden teeth. As locks improved the cash | | | | manufactured which can be opened without |
| box was able to be reduced in size and eventually, by | | | | destroying them. These wooden piggy banks take |
| manufacturing them in metal they could be portable | | | | many forms and do not have to be porcine! There are |
| cash boxes. Obviously the larger size was then called | | | | all sorts of different shapes although the wooden |
| a safe or even a vault. | | | | piggy bank is most common I have seen sheep, cows, |
| So who uses cash boxes? In the past retailers used | | | | bears and even Simpsons Characters. My favorite |
| cash boxes for the daily takings in the shop. These | | | | wooden piggy bank is actually in the shape of a Wells |
| cash boxes often had a drawer in the base and as | | | | Fargo cash transportation wagon complete with a |
| the years went on they incorporated a paper roll that | | | | locking brass cash box door. |
| was used to record the money placed in the cash | | | | |