Gert’s piggy bank pages

Save the piggy banks, don’t smash them!

value

If you want to save money the piggy bank is an ideal object, but if you want to earn money with piggy banks you will probably be disappointed. Collecting piggy banks is for fun. Collections have more value than just money! Gert’s collection contains piggy banks he bought from € 5 (± £ 4,80 or $ 7,00) for old ones and antique piggy banks for which he paid more than € 100,-.(± £ 96,- or $ 141,-).

A piggy bank from the world-famous Dutch Royal Tichelaar, known from the Makkum earthen-ware, is priced ± € 350,-. ‘Faience de Quimper’ (France) is also world-famous. They sell traditional piggy banks from € 55,-.

Buying antique piggy banks is tricky if you are not an expert. Much antique earthenware can be identified by a factory hallmark, piggy banks also! If you want a particular antique piggy buy it for the price you have in mind and don’t forget to negotiate with the seller. Don’t expect that the antique piggy bank becomes more valuable getting older, like old paintings. Concerning piggy banks that’s utter nonsense.

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

Reasonable prices

 

Examples of not so expensive piggybanks bought in the 1960th and early 1970th.

 

Clockwise (start ‘up left’):
a black-green one ordinary in the 60th, comes in many colors; 3 piggy’ s bought in a period of 25 years; one of a kind in many patterns and colors; an example of typical children's toy ware.

France

Antique ± 1850 – 1890

The Netherlands

Typical GOUDA piggy bank

Dutch antique: Frisian carving ware.