Kenton Hardware Original 1915 Cast Iron Woolworth Building Still Bank spinning toy writer and illustrator

writer and illustrator

with a very kind and gentle little face to boot

in the windowsill

Framed size: 8" x 5 7/8" x 3/4"

Kenton Hardware Original 1915 Cast Iron Woolworth Building Still Bank spinning toy writer and illustratorIn 1915, when this bank was produced by Kenton Hardward Manufacturing Co, the Woolworth Building was the tallest building in the world. It had been completed just two years earlier, located at at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan, designed by Cass Gilbett as the headquarters for F. W. Woolworth Co. So at the time it was produced, this gold painted cast iron bank would have been quite the current thing, marking the soaring achievement of 792 feet worth