Featured Unusual Small Penny Bank HELP!!

Anyone ever seen this small penny bank before? Its only about 2 ¾ inches long and 2 ½ tall. It looks to have the original paint. I can’t appear to find it in the penny bank book? Any help would be great!

 

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/cast-iron-black-baby-on-watermelon-still-bank/

a Worthpoint listing:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/rare-black-americana-cast-iron-baby-on-watermelon

@Kronos ?

 

Certainly beats that charming carved black figure all to hell in the caricature dept ! Oy !

 

This little fellow they are calling a razor bank.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/211608-some-black-americana-bottle-openers-gol

 

$20.48 (2008)

 

I wonder who thought this was a good idea.......?

 

See the links provided

 

Likely, many folks...at that time in our history.

 

One of the most primitive cast iron penny/razor banks i've ever seen.

 

Classic Jim Crow era representation of a little 'tar baby'(their slang-not mine !) hugging a watermelon-you'd see similar images in adverts,trade cards,common in the US.This was during a time when the lynchings of blacks were fairly commonplace-so this kind of caricature was considered cute & humorous.
One of the most classic bits of marketing back then was for a tobacco brand named 'Ni**er Hair Tobacco'.

 

Agreed. A little odd and disturbing

 

And they are still turning out these racist things in China and pretending they are antiques here to buy online or in person. I saw a doc about how they make them look old and then export them.

 

The Chinese will make anything that sells, so this must be an item that sells. And they churn out "antiques" like there is no tomorrow.