Gert’s piggy bank pages

Save the piggy banks, don’t smash them!

NL: Start of Gert’s collection

in 1965

Introduction

Gert Deelman is a Dutch collector of piggy banks since 1965. His collection contains about 800 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. With a stopper one can buy thousands…..

e-mail: gd@piggybanks.nl                        © 2010 GD projecten

The Netherlands

Royal Tichelaar– Makkum

Piggy banks come in many shapes.

 

Top

On the left a modelled forest pig, on the right a hand modelled sow (as you can see). Both made in the Netherlands; the sow by Greetje Ridderbos.

 

Below

On the left: a funny type, one can find in The Netherlands in many colours. The one on the right is typical Mexican.

Origin: Aruba