Bread Winner's Bank

Bread Winner's Bank
Designed by Charles Bailey By the J. & E. Stevens Company Cromwell, Connecticut - Circa 1886 100% Exquisitely Restored in 1990's Toy bank enthusiasts value the Bread Winner's Bank very highly because of its great historical significance. However, for modern viewers, it's symbolic meanings are often remote. Contrarily, children who came of age in the late 19th century would have easily recognized the socioeconomic dynamics at play in this toy bank. Today, one must re-engage one's knowledge of U. S. labor history to unlock these now forgotten and obscure clues. Examining the bank, one should first ask who are these three men and what is their relationship to each other. Why does one man carry a sledge hammer? Why does a second man wield a huge primitive club marked MONOPOLY? And why is the third man characterized as a disembodied head peeking out from a sack full of money? Perhaps most pointedly one must ask who are the "rascal" characters referenced in the very title of the bank and why must they be "sent up"? Answering these questions, one quickly sees