Collector/dealer Pat Hatch, well known for her extraordinary black doll collection, has been selling some small things at an antiques shop I heavily frequent in Maine; I scooped up several pieces from her this week, including this scratch made, hand-painted tin house (and bank--with a coin slot at the top of one chimney and underside that slides open) along with a carved wooden cottage also listed today. You know I love a piece of folk art architecture, and this certainly feels like a portrait of a specific house; its nature as a still bank feels as if it was of far less the concern to the maker than getting each detail of the house just right, down to every green shutter and each red brick. And with the best blue on that roof, topped by two terrific chimneys, one of them a bit twisty, which seems just right; it feels a bit as if this house might start talking, using that chimney as its mouth!
7 3/8" w x 5 7/8" d x 7" t. General age and scattered paint loss/ as evident, all to the good in my opinion. Sound and not fragile, with slide opening bottom (opens all the way) to get coins out.
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