Antique National cash register 552N (1914)

Description

Antique National cash register 552N (1914). Condition is "Used".
Beautiful antique register, with three wood drawer, counter top stand, Has not been operated or messed with in a while, but all drawers and buttons previously worked.
The National Cash Registers Company began as the National Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, which was established to manufacture and sell the first mechanical cash register. The cash register was the brainstorm of James Ritty, a Dayton saloonkeeper. Ritty was tired of crooked bartenders tapping the till and attached a device to the cashbox to record how much money went in. In 1879 he and his brother patented a machine with a mechanism similar to the one he had seen counting revolutions of transatlantic liners.
Pre-1916 cash registers were made with ornately patterned bronze and brass covers or fine wooden cabinets and are highly prized by collectors. Old and ornate cash registers can cost several thousands dollars and even a small candy store model may bring almost that much.