(BLACK MEMORABILIA) For Our Missions

Sale 1961 - Lot 132

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(BLACK MEMORABILIA.) For Our Missions. Painted plaster statuette collection bank in the form of a young black girl holding a seashell into which donations were dropped, 13x4 1/2x7 1/2 inches, with a swivel head nounted to the figures with 2 iron prongs; very minor wear. Boston: da Prato, circa 1900

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Curous survival. The young woman's head would bob when a coin was dropped into the bank, as if she were nodding thank you in acknowledgement.