Gert’s piggy bank pages

Saving piggy banks is saving your heritage!

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Where to find the piggy banks? That’s the question!

Type of shop/ market:

Souvenir shop, crockery shop and sometimes in a toy shop.
Try a boot fair, market , charity shop or visit an auction.

 

Countries without piggy banks:

Don’t search for piggy banks in countries where it is not custom to eat pork, where a pig is an unclean animal. In principle you will not find any.

 

Countries with piggy banks:

Where traditional there are porcelain or earthenware factories you might find piggy banks. Gert’s collection contains for example piggy banks from the East European countries, Denmark, UK, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia, etc. In his collection also are items from China, Thailand, Indonesia. Few from Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, many from Mexico (most made before the earthquake of 1985) and little from the USA.

e-mail: gd@piggybanks.nl                        © 2010-2011 GD projecten

France 1900-1920

Piggy bank, made of plaster/ chalk ware with fashionable hat. 20 cm high. 

Various types

 

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Left: ‘From Portugal. The rope is to store the piggy bank, compare the grip on Mexican piggy banks.

Right: Waechtersbach (Germany)

 

Below

Left: The biggest piggybank in the collection; stoneware from Portugal (43 cm long)

Right: Bought in Madrid (Spain)

Origin: Italy