Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2618BLocation: BostonDate / Time: October 28, 2012 10:00AM
Description:
Polychrome and Painted Cast Iron "Eagle and Eaglets" Mechanical Bank, J. & E. Stevens Company, Cromwell, Connecticut, c. 1883, by placing a coin in the eagle's beak and depressing the snake-form lever, the eagle leans forward to feed her eaglets depositing the coin from her beak into the nest, with coin receptacle, the base impressed "PAT. JAN. 23 1883," (paint loss, wear),ht. 5 3/4, lg. 8 1/2 in.
Estimate $600-800