Description

 Avery original first generation fre box in solid copper / brass .

If you rode trolleys, street cars or buses from the early teens until the late 1960s there is a better than average chance that the token, nickel or dime or in later years the quarter that you used to pay your fare was dropped into a Johnson or Cleveland farebox. These venerable and well-made boxes were found on a large percentage of transit systems large and small in the United States. The name Johnson Farebox came from its founder Tom Loftin Johnson (1854-1911). He was a businessman, U.S. representative, mayor; born near Georgetown, Kentucky. Moving about the south during the Civil War, he had little formal education. Settling in Louisville, Kentucky, he worked for the street railroad owned by members of the du Pont family, and gained their respect when he invented the first farebox for coins in 1880. In May 1888 he affiliated himself

24.00" X 12.00" X 10.00"