1920's Vintage
Baseball Player
Cast Iron no painting
Up for Purchase is a Primitive American bank
Extremely Rare!
Measures about 6"t x 2 1/8w”x 1 1/2.d
This Vintage Cast Iron Baseball Player Bank is of High Quality and is in Excellent Condition with Some minor rust#
Increasingly Scarce to Find!
#19 on Page 65 in the Moore's Penny Bank Book...Produced in the 1920's
Bank does not have any visible stamp or tag
The Baseball Player is one of the Varieties Made by A.C. Williams.
A.C. Williams was founded in 1886 by Mr. Adam Clark Williams in Chagrin Falls Ohio. Just Three years later a big fire destroyed the Factory. Fire destroyed it again in 1892 Williams moved the company to Ravenna Ohio. Actual Production Began there in 1893. Williams began to provide traveling salesmen with miniature samples of the company’s products. A Detroit buyer pointed out the miniatures would make nice toys. Soon A.C. Williams was the largest toy and still bank manufacture in the world. The Woolworth's Dime Store chain was among the company’s biggest customers.
Please inspect the pictures to make your own Determination on Condition.