Mechanical money box
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Paint
Measurements
140 x 95 mm; 240 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 551991
Summary
Painted cast ferrous metal mechanical money box with moving parts depicting a whale attacking a small boat with two people in it. The whale is painted blue with a red mouth and the boat is yellow and black. The female figure is red and yellow, the male is black and pink. The top of the base is green to depict the sea and the base is moulded to look like a plinth and is painted brown and yellow/gold. The coin sits on top of the figures and slides into whale's mouth and into the base.
Provenance
Purchased as part of Geler Jones Collection in 1994.
Marks and inscriptions
(on front) 'JONAH AND THE WHALE' (on side) 'BANK'