folded aluminum bank; joints secured by tabs; in the form of a birdhouse with ref roof, back and base; perch at front acts as a coin receptacle; hand crank at right side animates a green and yellow bird which emerges from the house and using its beak, clamps on to the coin and takes in back into the house where it releases the coin; boy with fiddle and crouching boy with donkey decorate sides

"Bird, Mushroom, and Squirrel" mechanical bank, c. 1950s

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Gift of Katherine Kierland Herbergerexpand_more  2003.236.438

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"Bird, Mushroom, and Squirrel" mechanical bank
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2003.236.438
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folded aluminum bank; joints secured by tabs; in the form of a birdhouse with ref roof, back and base; perch at front acts as a coin receptacle; hand crank at right side animates a green and yellow bird which emerges from the house and using its beak, clamps on to the coin and takes in back into the house where it releases the coin; boy with fiddle and crouching boy with donkey decorate sides