295 US Hwy 22 East, Suite 204 West, Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States
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The Morning of Saturday, August 3rd, we will bid farewell to a unique legacy collection of American toys and banks: The Haradin Family Collection. A magnificent and richly historical archive, it spans multiple generations of a family whose roots are deeply embedded in two communities: their native Pittsburgh and the borderless realm of antique toy and bank collecting. This auction hits especially close to home for us because the Pittsburgh clan that built the collection includes our lifelong friend and colleague Ray Haradin, the "R" of RSL Auction Company. The Afternoon of Saturday, August 3rd we will be selling the world class paper lithography collection of Carl & Linda Thomas of Bluefield, WV. Included are many fantastic skittle and knockdown sets, about 15 sets of paper litho trains and about 15 to 20 paper litho horse drawn toys. Also included in this sale is a selection of still banks, penny toys, and the Kobe Toy Collection of Ron & Sandy Rosen.
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LOT 25:
Hen and Chicks Bank
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Sold for: $6,500
Start price:
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3,750
Estimated price :
$7,500 - $9,500
Buyer's Premium: 27.5%
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Hen and Chicks Bank
Rare & Desirable White Hen Version. Made by the J. & E. Stevens Company. Cromwell, Ct. - Pat'd. October 1, 1901. The Hen & Chicks Bank presents us with a wonderful vignette from life on the farm. On a small patch of grass, among a field full of yellow and blue flowers, mother hen has taken her babies out to learn the lay of the land. She has tucked them under her wings and she even sits atop a chick who pops out to surprise us when are coin is deposited into the bank. Ambitiously, the Stevens Company attempted to reproduce the sound and movement of the crowing hen, by internally fixing a ratchet cog to the operating lever. Typically, Stevens painted the hen in a shade of light brown and they favored a sort of metallic treatment for the base. Vividly colored specimens of the Hen and Chicks Bank with white hen are very scarce and collectors view it as an enviable variant.
Condition: Pristine with Original Box.
