Here we have a most unusual and rare form dog bank.  The bank is molded with the dog’s head coming out of the top of a gentleman’s hat with the brim turned up on the sides.  At the base of the dog’s head is a large coin slot.  When this bank was made, pennies were much larger than today, the size of half dollars.  The face of the dog looks like a boxer, with a short snout.  The potter decorated the bank with Rockingham spatter glaze.  The bank measures 4” to the top of the dog’s head by 4” wide.  The bank has 2 lines that don’t extend to the top or bottom of the bank, with damage to the coin slot which was widened by a clever child to retrieve the coins inside.  This is an extremely rare form for a bank not shown in any of the books on collecting yellow ware.