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Looking to beg, steal, borrow or at worst hire an old fashioned shop till for the feed store scene in Hello Dolly. 

Anyone have any contacts for this sort of thing?

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Not been there for 20+ years, but NCR used to have 2 or 3 on display at the London office in Marylebone Road. May be worth an enquiry. 020 7723 7070.

If not, relatively easy to mock up something if it is just to look the part. 

 

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You could try EPH, prophire.com, or Stockyard
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On a related but completely unhelpful note, I took teenage daughter to the Science Museum yesterday. There was an old fashioned till on display which fascinated her. It was while explaining how they work that I realised that the phrase 'Kerching!' in reference to a lot of money has no context to anyone below a certain age (who also hasn't watched 'Open All Hours').

 

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Judging by ebay, some of the good looking brass case models are very expensive now! From experience some of them are ridiculously heavy I remember converting some from £sd to Decimal by grinding gears inside.

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We actually have one of those little beasts (if I can find it...) and that would be fine for Molloy's hat shop. 

But for the Vandergelder feed store, seeing as he's a 'half millionaire' I reckon he'd probably have something like the real deal 🙂

That said, I believe we may be in luck as my friendly props contact at Imagine in Cov thinks she may have one (again - if she can locate it!! 😮 )

 

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