RARE Signature Junior Montgomery Ward Toy Adding retail and Multiplying Machine 48-1599

Product Name: RARE Signature Junior Montgomery Ward Toy Adding retail and Multiplying Machine 48-1599
The Signature Junior is a toy adding machine sold by Montgomery Ward in the late 1960s. The machine mostly is made of thin metal plate though its upper casing is made of orange plastic. It was invented retail by Shigeaki Kuramochi and made in Japan by Soken. Montgomery Ward used the Signature Junior brand for the top of the range toys, which also included a sewing machine, a typewriter, and a record player. This adding machine looks like a miniature cash register. It has a 5-digit register at the top, which can be reset by turning the crank on the right-hand side anti-clockwise. The curved keyboard has four full columns of keys, numbered top to bottom from 0 to 9, with a totals button to the right. After entering a number on the keyboard including leading zeroes, you press the totals button to activate the electric motor which adds the number to the register. The adding machine does not work. I tested the machine with D batteries, and it does not turn on. All buttons work, handle turns,.