Savings clocks : Swiss insurances / Erwin Dietrich ; [translator, Jimmy Miller].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Undetermined Publisher: Uhwiesen : Society of Friends of the Savingbank Museum, 1985Edition: Improved editionDescription: 66 pages : illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.N69 D54 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000073367

"No. 10."

"English edition, March 1985"--Verso title page.

31560000073367 15861

A monograph on clocks incorporporating a piggybank, which made it necessary to put money in every day to keep them running. Such clocks were popular giveaways is Switzerland upon buying a Life (Savings) Insurance policy with a premium of 1 Franc a day. They date mainly from the first half of the 20th century.

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