Vintage Automatic Mechanical Coffin Bank, Original Box. Works

Vintage Automatic Mechanical Coffin Bank, Original Box. Works

Halloween or skeleton collectors, this great piece comes in the original manufacturer box. The automatic action in the form of a coffin with key wind. Place a coin and hand comes out and grabs the coin. These were manufactured by Yonetzawa (aka Yone) Toys in the 1950s.

Size  17 x 9 cm

Yonezawa Toys, commonly known as Yone, was founded in the 1950s. Early brochures and catalogs used the anglicized S. Y. Toys Co., Ltd. It was headquartered in Tokyo. It was a large post-1945 Japanese toy manufacturer.

In the 1960s, the anglicized name changed to Yoneya Toy Co., Ltd. Although used by collectors, Yone was never used as a company name, although it did appear in a later trademark.

Yonezawa produced thousands of different electrically operated and mechanical toys through the 1970s. Then, in the mid-1980s, Yonezawa dabbled in radio control toys.

In 1991, Sega absorbed Yonezawa Toys and created Sega-Yonezawa. Sega abolished the Yonezawa brand in April 1998.