Cast Iron Black Americana Banks & More
Height: 5 1/2 inches (Match holder) Height: 3 1/2 inches (Girl with watermelon) Height: 4 inches (Boy with watermelon) Height: 5 3/4 inches (Figure with top hat) Height: 7 1/2 inches (Memo holder) Height: 5 1/2 inches (Figure with laundry basket). This collection includes several cast iron objects featuring polychrome painted finishes, reflecting historical racial imagery from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The group consists of various still banks and functional household items. One wall-mounted match holder depicts a woman in a red dress and headscarf with arms akimbo, featuring a hollowed back and two circular mounting holes. A separate memo or shopping list holder is designed as a flat-backed figure holding a broom, complete with a central metal clip and a cast-in slot on the reverse for a pencil. The still banks in this collection include a figure carrying a laundry basket on the right hip with a coin slot at the rear of the neck, and a male figure in a red jacket and yellow trousers holding a top hat with a coin slot across the shoulders. Also included are two smaller figures eating watermelon; the figure of the boy features a green circular base with the molded text WAY DOWN SOUTH. The banks are constructed in halves, joined by various flat-head or Phillips-head screws. One bank base features an impressed mark, though the characters are not legible as a specific name or word.
[ translate ]Height: 5 1/2 inches (Match holder) Height: 3 1/2 inches (Girl with watermelon) Height: 4 inches (Boy with watermelon) Height: 5 3/4 inches (Figure with top hat) Height: 7 1/2 inches (Memo holder) Height: 5 1/2 inches (Figure with laundry basket). This collection includes several cast iron objects featuring polychrome painted finishes, reflecting historical racial imagery from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The group consists of various still banks and functional household items. One wall-mounted match holder depicts a woman in a red dress and headscarf with arms akimbo, featuring a hollowed back and two circular mounting holes. A separate memo or shopping list holder is designed as a flat-backed figure holding a broom, complete with a central metal clip and a cast-in slot on the reverse for a pencil. The still banks in this collection include a figure carrying a laundry basket on the right hip with a coin slot at the rear of the neck, and a male figure in a red jacket and yellow trousers holding a top hat with a coin slot across the shoulders. Also included are two smaller figures eating watermelon; the figure of the boy features a green circular base with the molded text WAY DOWN SOUTH. The banks are constructed in halves, joined by various flat-head or Phillips-head screws. One bank base features an impressed mark, though the characters are not legible as a specific name or word.
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