1910 American cast iron Rumpelstiltskin NR "C" $500

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New Bankskull service! I have 16consignment banks up along with 25 Bankskull banks for a grand total of 41 beautiful items up for auction. I will be auctioning 30 to 40 items every twoweeks this year, including the summer months! Last summer worked out well but you can definitely pick up some bargains when the heat is on!! I have had several people ask about selling banks and I am going to see how this goes this New Year. I am going to start with my existing customers ONLY. I am still working on some of the logistics but I have a good system set up to start. Shoot me an email if you would like to sell your pristine condition banks for top dollar through Bankskull Auctions!!! Hello all!! 2008 is going to be an incredible year for auctions!! It was a fantastic fall of cast iron collecting this year! If you are not on my email list yet, I suggest you get on it, you don't want to miss out!! (Details below) T ARE40 MORE ITEMS UP FOR SALE IN THIS AUCTION. I have banks ranging in age from 1880's to the 1950's. I generally collect but I have been having fun with these auctions so I'm picking up "extras" when I find them now & offering them to all you collectors out t on Ebay. I hit all the garage & estate sales, flea markets, antique shows & some Ebay treasures!!!! I have banks manufactured by all the major manufacturers. I also have branched out into some of my other cast iron interests, mainly doorstops & paperweights but I have some unexpected surprises as well. Always no reserve and starting at $.99 because I feel the quality the items will speak for themselves and get a fair price. I regularly have auctions, generally twice a month. My next auction will start Thursday March 13th and end on Sunday March 23rd. If you would like, send me your email & I will add you to the list & notify you when I have an auction. I ONLY us this info to send you info on my Ebay auctions, absolutely nothing else. Check out my other Arcade bank up for auction! The Brothers Grimm The Story of Rumplestiltskin Once t was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to the king, and in order to make himself appear important he said to him, "I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold." The king said to the miller, "That is an art which pleases me well, if your daughter is as clever as you say, bring her to-morrow to my palace, and I will put her to the test." And when the girl was brought to him he took her into a room which was quite full of straw, gave her a spinning-wheel and a reel, and said, "Now set to work, and if by to-morrow morning early you have not spun this straw into gold during the night, you must die." Tupon he himself locked up the room, and left her in it alone. So t sat the poor miller's daughter, and for the life of her could not tell what to do, she had no idea how straw could be spun into gold, and she grew more and more frightened, until at last she began to weep. But all at once the door opened, and in came a little man, and said, "Good evening, mistress miller, why are you crying so?" "Alas," answered the girl, "I have to spin straw into gold, and I do not know how to do it." "What will you give me," said the manikin, "if I do it for you?" "My necklace," said the girl. The little man took the necklace, seated himself in front of the wheel, and whirr, whirr, whirr, three turns, and the reel was full, then he put another on, and whirr, whirr, whirr, three times round, and the second was full too. And so it went on until the morning, when all the straw was spun, and all the reels were full of gold. By daybreak the king was already t, and when he saw the gold he was astonished and delighted, but his heart became only more greedy. He had the miller's daughter taken into another room full of straw, which was much larger, and commanded her to spin that also in one night if she valued her life. The girl knew not how to help herself, and was crying, when the door opened again, and t... read more

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