American Kyser & Rex Painted Cast Iron Zoo Bank Mechanical Bank p2327 with gadroon edges

with gadroon edges

The case of attractive slim proportions and the case door with circular glass pendulum window

Note: glass is broken and will be removed prior to shipping

Signed in pencil (bottom): When Everything's Almost Perfect/ Barbara Van Cleve 1989

Skinner moved to Massachusetts in 1843 and founded Unquomonk Silk Mills

American Kyser & Rex Painted Cast Iron Zoo Bank Mechanical Bank p2327 with gadroon edgesDETAILS An antique painted cast iron mechanical coin bank. When the monkey in the top window of the barn is pressed the red barn doors open to expose two other animals. COLOR(S) Red, green PLACE OF ORIGIN United States PATTERN MODEL Zoo Bank MAKER Kyser & Rex Company (Philadelphia Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1879 99) Founders: Louis Kyser and Alfred C. Rex MARKS Stamped (back): Zoo Bank Press the Monkey 134 PERIOD Late 19th century DATE