ESB Savings Box

"To help people save to pay their electricity bills the ESB produced money boxes. These small circular chrome savings boxes came with predetermined slots named in Irish to put in half crowns, shillings and pence. You could see the amount you had saved through the marked levels at each coin slot (except for the notes which were put in the vertical slot). While initially the family used it to save for electricity bills I took it over for personal savings and if I remember rightly put some of my first communion money in it. You had to take it to the ESB (where the most glamorous girl in Skerries) worked and she would open it and give you the cash or take it off the bill. This one is numbered 6035 on the back."