A painted cast-iron bank: a caped soldier aims a rifle at a target set in a tree stump. The form is the Creedmoor bank.
- Period
- Patent date 6 November 1877; this casting is not yet read
- Material
- Painted cast iron
- Attribution
- Creedmoor model, J. & E. Stevens Co., after James H. Bowen. Not confirmed from this bank’s own lettering.
- Price
- On request
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A soldier in a red coat, blue cape, grey trousers, and a red cap with a yellow band stands on a green base and aims a rifle at a brown tree stump. A round target is set into the stump. Two raised stones sit in the base. This is the form of the Creedmoor bank, patented by James H. Bowen on 6 November 1877 and made by the J. & E. Stevens Company of Cromwell, Connecticut. On published examples the stones are lettered “Creedmoor Bank,” the patent date, and “Bowen’s Series.” The lettering on this bank cannot be read in the photographs, so that inscription is not confirmed here.