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Lot 312:
A Collection of Glazed Ceramic Novelty Money Boxes Including a Wade Irish Leprechaun Toadstool Bank
Description
A collection of various glazed ceramic novelty money boxes and themed containers. The group features a Wade Irish porcelain toadstool money box modeled as a large mushroom with a leprechaun figure standing in the doorway. Other pieces include an anthropomorphic duck character bank inscribed BANK, a large figural container modeled after the Thorntons Chocolate Kabin, a Dumbo-style elephant, and a shopfront-themed bank inscribed Birthplace of D.H. Lawrence. Also present is a square bank featuring vintage Bovril and Colman’s Mustard advertising and a cylindrical bank with an embossed figural body and a bright red lid.
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