Money box
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
circa 1880 - circa 1899
Materials
Cast iron
Measurements
59 mm (width); 78 mm (height); 47 mm (depth)
Place of origin
America
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665074
Summary
A cast iron money box in the shape of a cottage, painted yellow and dark brown with red window frames. It is made in two halves and bolted together by a screw in the underside of the base. The front has an embossed door flanked by two windows. There are two windows at the back with a money slot above. In each of the end walls are cut out shapes from top to bottom, a quatrefoil, a triangle, a circle and a triangle. There is a chimney in the centre of the roof ridge.