Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 239

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BUSINESS.) [MAGGIE LENA WALKER.] St Luke's A.M.E. Church. Help us Raise $300 in 30 Days. "United We Stick, Divided We're Stuck." Metal "Dime bank," 2-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches with red plastic (?) band in the center; about the size and shape of a cigarette lighter. Birmingham, ALA, circa 1920's -1930's
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This little bank may have been fashioned after the St Luke's "Penny" Banks created by Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934), the first woman, white or black to found a bank in America. It was meant to take dimes, and was obviously part of a fund drive to save the St Luke Church in Birmingham. The motto on the bank, "United We Stick, Divided We're Stuck," would imply some sort of problem. According to Richard R. Wright's Centennial Encyclopedia of the A.M.E. Church Rev. N. W. Brown was born in 1876, which would probably date this little bank somewhere in the 1920's or 1930's.