C. 1880s Much Used Antique Tin Coin Bank antique american but these are the real

but these are the real deal

I I have done a fair amount of research

I would guess this

A little scattered staining and smudging and a little paper attached to bottom corners on the back

Under the cardboard then are the metal rimmed cardboard egg holders

C. 1880s Much Used Antique Tin Coin Bank antique american but these are the realI really like the wear on this one, suggesting someone dropped a small fortune in it over the course of more than a century. There is also something a bit haunting to me about it, as if embodying a kind of desperation and or a crumbling of the literal and proverbial bank, or house, or church, which I believe it was actually meant to be, with pinnacles at each corner the points which are long since gone. 4 1 8" t x 2 3 8" w x 1 5 16" d. Structurally