Trading Stamp Dispensers - a photo on Flickriver

            You don't see these anymore. These were common in supermarkets, gas stations and other stores in the 1960s and 1970s. Machines like these would be mounted above or next to the cash register and the clerk or merchant would use the dial or slide to count out the number of trading stamps earned by the customer based on the dollar amount of their purchases. They operated manually. No electricity needed.

Two of these were custom made for S&H Green Stamps and and the one in the center is generic, so it could have dispensed any of thousands of brands of trading stamps that were issued in those days. The two with the rotary dials (kind of like the old telephones) were made by the Akra Stamp Machine Company of Arcadia, California and the one with the slides (on the left) was made by the Roto-Stamp Corporation of Gastonia, North Carolina.

Taken on: July 30, 2012

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s&h green stamps

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Sets appears in: • Gas, Groceries & Green Stamps

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