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8" (20 cm.) Seated upon the iron base is an Irishman with sculpted hat emblazoned with a shamrock, with brown glass movable eyes and hinged jaw, dark brown jacket, yellow trousers, and holding a white piglet in his lap. When a coin is placed on the piglet's nose and the lever pushed, the piglet kicks up his foot, popping the coin backwards into the hinging-open mouth of Irishman whose eyes also roll back and forth. Very good/excellent, finish all original with some paint wear and rubs, mechanism intact and functioning, coin trap missing. American, circa 1880s, J. & E. Stevens.