Onsite
Highest Bidder
Passed
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- Estimate
- $600 / $800
Description
7" (18 cm.) bank. Each is tin with pressed and colorfully printed designs, including German tin bank (when lever pressed, eyes close and tongue sticks out for placement of a penny, with message in English), marked Made in Germany; noisemaker bell depicting vaudeville star with straw hat (when lever squeezed at the back his face drops and the bell rings), marked DRGM; similar squeeze toy of man with bulbous eyelids and movable lips which open and close when squeezed; and two unusual googly-eyed faces (when string at base is pulled, the eyes amusingly revolve). Very good/excellent condition. Circa 1920s.