Toy Bank
date: label: date made
content: 1860 - 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Toy bank in the form of a center-chimney house, painted white and gilt-stenciled on the front facade with "BANK" arched above a four-paneled, double door flanked by six-pane windows, all gothic-arched with fanlights. Red-painted, lapped-seam chimney is the money slot. Blue-japaned roof is soft-soldered in place. Building front, bottom and back are one piece with ends crimped inside their plain edges. No marks.
label: Description
content: Attributed to George W. Brown & Co. of Forestville (now Bristol), CT, in business 1856-1868; or Stevens & Brown Manufacturing Co., of Cromwell, CT, in business, 1869-1880. George W. Brown (involved with both concerns) is credited with introducing mechanical (clockwork or wind-up) toys to the United States, and produced an illustrated catalog of his offerings in 1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Cromwell
topic: label: Subject
content: Toys
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Banks
label: Subject
content: Building & Architecture
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.263901.0079
label: catalog number
content: 263901.0079
label: accession number
content: 263901
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bank, toy
label: Other Terms
content: Bank; Toys
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 8.5725 cm x 5.715 cm