拍品专文
A similar bank is illustrated in Davidson, Penny Lane: When Saving Was A Virtue--Collecting Mechanical Banks (n.d.), p. 6.
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PATENTED BY RUSSEL FRISBIE, CROMWELL, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1875
细节
A POLYCHROME-PAINTED CAST-IRON TAMMANY BANK
Patented by Russel Frisbie, Cromwell, Connecticut, circa 1875
The seated figure of a man with coin slot in breast and raised-arm and nodding-head mechanism, the chair sides marked TAMMANY BANK and the underside marked PATD JUNE 8 1875, all painted in yellow, blue, red, white, black and brown
5½in. high
Patented by Russel Frisbie, Cromwell, Connecticut, circa 1875
The seated figure of a man with coin slot in breast and raised-arm and nodding-head mechanism, the chair sides marked TAMMANY BANK and the underside marked PATD JUNE 8 1875, all painted in yellow, blue, red, white, black and brown
5½in. high