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Gert’s piggy bank pages |
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Saving piggy banks is saving your heritage! |
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NL: Start of Gert’s collection in 1965; potter unknown |
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Introduction |
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Gert Deelman is a Dutch collector of piggy banks since 1965. His collection contains about 850 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 or plaster/ chalk ware · 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….. |
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e-mail: gd@piggybanks.nl © 2010-2011 GD projecten |
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The Netherlands Royal Tichelaar– Makkum |
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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. |
