Gert’s piggy bank pages

Do’nt smash the piggy banks, save them!

The piggy Gert started his collection with in 1965

Introduction

Gert Deelman is a Dutch collector of piggy banks since 1965.
His collection contains about 725 different piggy banks.
Gert only collects original old fashioned stone piggy banks.
The kind you have to smash to pieces, if you want the money you saved in the piggy bank. For Gert’s collection that is just a metaphor, as you will understand.

Entering Gert’s collection a piggy bank must:

· look like a pig

· be made of clay, porcelain

· not have a stopper in the belly bottom, or elsewhere

 

Why piggy banks without a stopper?

Gert collects only piggy banks without a stopper in the belly bottom for two reasons:

1. In his opinion these are the authentic piggy banks;

2. Collecting also means to limit the amount of things you want to collect and to exhibit in your home.

e-mail: gd@piggybanks.nl                        © 2009 GD projecten

A big one and two tiny ones,
all Dutch (type Gouda)

Piggy banks come in many shapes.

On the left you see a modelled wild pig, on the right a boar (with a realistic ‘willie’). Both from the Netherlands.

 

On the left a modelled pig from the Netherlands.

The one on the right is typical Mexican. 

Origin: Curaçao

update:

2009-08-03

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