Lot Details & Additional Photographs
20th century, (4) banks including a painted cast iron J & E Stevens Co. Style Cupola bank (3 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.); a painted cast iron Ohio Foundry Co. reproduction bank of a house with a basement, stamped to underside and with original patent date of 1893 (4 5/8 x 4 5/8 x 4 in.); a cast brass semi-mechanical A.C. Williams elephant coin bank with swinging trunk (4 1/2 x 6 x 2 1/4 in.); and a mechanical painted metal baby bird bank, with plaque to base reading "FIRST / STATE BANK / 4% on savings / Rosemead, / Calif.", with company and patent mark to underside (7 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.).
From a Prominent Collector, Aiken, South Carolina Still banks with some small areas of paint loss; the Ohio reproduction bank with small areas of rust spotting; the bird bank with areas of paint cracking and loss, loss and crack to metal base.
