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Article: PRICE-LESS CASH REGISTERS RESTORED TO ANTIQUE BEAUTY
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- March 25, 1992
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-25-1992
PRICE-LESS CASH REGISTERS RESTORED TO ANTIQUE BEAUTY
Date: 03-25-1992, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star
Peter Warns of Ho-Ho-Kus restores cash registers that are very old
and very rare. Warns specializes in brass machines manufactured by the
National Cash Register Co. of Dayton, Ohio, between 1888 and 1916. It
was a gilded age, a time of display, decoration, and prosperity. A brass
cash register was something every merchant had to have, to keep his
business and his sense of status in order. Then came world war, and the
brass era of cash registers was over. Of 1.65 million such machines
...