George Brown Tin House Bank *SOLD*

George Brown Tin House Bank For Sale

Our beautiful George Brown penny bank comes by way of NJ and a long time tin collector.  It is a beautiful gingerbread flourished Victorian home with steep peaks and a single chimney.

George Brown is America’s pre-eminent 1870’s tinsmith.  Brown is also a well cataloged thanks to a 1970’s reprint of his sketchbook.  Our example is a variant of the catalog item 200 “Elaborate cottage bank with gingerbread tin” and it is distinctly George Brown.

The bank has original condition walls and windows, stenciled in by hand and then a repainted roof.  It fluoresces, but the work is excellent and aged.   The rear bank door is held by a wire latch.

George W. Brown & Co. Forestville, Connecticut
1856 – 1880
Merged with J. & E. Stevens in 1868
Founder: George W. Brown and Chauncey Goodrich
First manufacturer to produce toys with clock-work mechanisms.
Beginning perhaps as early as 1850. Known for classic boats, vehicles, animal platforms toys, dancing figures, and hoop bell toy, fashioned in painted tin.