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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_1.jpg) | 1 - Nat west pigs
Nat West Pigs by Wade, produced in 1984 by Wade England (they have the original logo on the base). You had to open a bank account with Nat West to get one of them and maybe they were only for children. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_2.jpg) | 2 - Coconuts
They are all coconuts, skilfully built and painted from the most exotic places of the world. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_3.jpg) | 3 - Models
Series of tall and well-dressed pigs. They are all ceramic piggy banks, coming from Italy. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_4.jpg) | 4 - Arts and crafts
A series of plastic pigs, working in different fields. You can recognize them from big ears and sprightly colours. | Piggy banks: 6 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_5.jpg) | 5 - The woodyballs
In this group you can find all woody and round piggy banks, with floral design on one or both sides. All these piggy banks have a special tail, totally in rope. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_6.jpg) | 6 - Pointed ears
A group of small pigs, pink or blue in colour, characterized by pointed ears. You can tipically find them in turistical places, often painted on one or both sides. | Piggy banks: 6 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_7.jpg) | 7 - Babies
Only a few months of life for these little pigs. They have baby bottles, bibs and diapers. | Piggy banks: 10 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_8.jpg) | 8 - Blue ears
Group of blue and white pigs, coming from tourist places in America. They are fairly common, recognizable from blue ears and expressive eyes. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_9.jpg) | 9 - The hammerers
If you want to spend your coins, in this group you must use with energy an hammer. Every pig is ready to be sacrificed for your business! | Piggy banks: 10 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_10.jpg) | 10 - Four-wheels pigs
In this category we have included the "driving pigs", all those that in a way or another have something to do with four wheels. | Piggy banks: 8 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_11.jpg) | 11 - Classics
Series of very commercial pigs, easy to find all over the world, with different floral designs and coloured ribbons. | Piggy banks: 7 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_12.jpg) | 12 - Delft
Hand painted Delft piggy banks, with blue ears, eyes beet, tail, squiggly design with dots on both sides. They are marked "Delft Blue Colour". | Piggy banks: 8 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_13.jpg) | 13 - The woody Orientals
These hand-painted wooden pigs love to be filled up with your spare change. A trap door on the bottom opens to free your money. You can find them in oriental shops all over the world! | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_14.jpg) | 14 - Cork-noses
Group of pigs with a cork instead of the nose. You can take all the coins from this cork! | Piggy banks: 7 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_15.jpg) | 15 - The mexicans
In this category are grouped pigs that are typical of the Mexican production, although now you can also find them elsewhere in the world. They are very heavy, hand painted with lively colors and ready to be hanged by the ring they carry on their back. | Piggy banks: 7 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_16.jpg) | 16 - Football teams
All the pigs of this series are precious gadgets of famous football teams. They are round balls, painted with official colours of the team, with arms and symbols of the team. There are some pigs wich have a ball painted instead of the tail. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_17.jpg) | 17 - Football players
All the pigs in this group are real football players, wearing official jersey, with numbers and arms of the most famous teams of the world. | Piggy banks: 8 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_18.jpg) | 18 - Up side down
This series contains all the pigs that, while waiting to get filled with coins, enjoy looking at the sky, showing their bellies! It is not easy to find pigs in this position, that's why those that are here are very precious! | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_19.jpg) | 19 - The monsters
Series of blue pigs, with Dracula-like teeth and monster shapes. They are easily recognisable from the friendly messages they carry with them. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_20.jpg) | 20 - Green hope
Promotional green piggy banks of the "Nationaal Spaarfonds", presented to the opener of a new savings-accounts. The inscription says: "Die bi mi spaert gheluck vergaert", which is old Dutch for "Saving with and in me, will bring you luck". | Piggy banks: 3 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_21.jpg) | 21 - In the kitchen
All these pigs are ready for your lunch! They are able to cook, to roast or to boil everything. They have ladles, aprons and chef hats. | Piggy banks: 12 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_22.jpg) | 22 - Couples
In this category you only find couples of pigs, i.e. pigs born together, often made by the same "hand", with the same materials and characteristics. Usually you buy them together, often they are Mrs. and Mr. pig of the same couple! | Piggy banks: 31 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_23.jpg) | 23 - Snowballs
Here you have a group of small tourist piggy banks. On both sides they have painting of most famous places in the world. | Piggy banks: 3 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_24.jpg) | 24 - Little hearts
All the pigs of this tourist group are little ceramic piggy bank with a coin slot on top. They have hearts for eyes, nose and tail. On one side there is a picture or a world that remind you of the place where they came from.
| Piggy banks: 38 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_25.jpg) | 25 - Big hearts
All the pigs of this tourist group are ceramic piggy bank - the bigger version of group 24 - with a coin slot on top. They have hearts for eyes, nose and tail. On one side there is a picture or a world that remind you of the place where they came from.
| Piggy banks: 11 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_26.jpg) | 26 - The pirates
This is the very special set of the "Pirate pigs", all fully dressed as such, and wearing a dark band covering one of their eyes. Some even have a hook instead of one hand and they all together form a very special group. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_27.jpg) | 27 - Pigs' life
This is probably the most crowded category in the entire collection. It includes several pigs busy with all sorts of activites. They are made of polyresin, end easily recognisable by their expression and their body shape. They can be found everywhere. | Piggy banks: 28 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_28.jpg) | 28 - Hobbies
This series groups rather big pigs in shining or rough ceramics, usually hand painted with lively colors. They are pigs busy, in their spare time, with hobbies, arts and sports. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_29.jpg) | 29 - The sportspigs
I have a lot of pigs ready for a sport. As well as the series 16 and 17, all these pigs are connected with a kind of sport. Some of them reproduce directly an apparatus or an accessory (a ball or a sport shoe). | Piggy banks: 19 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_30.jpg) | 30 - At school
Series of pigs working at school, surrounded by desks, books and school bags. | Piggy banks: 7 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_31.jpg) | 31 - Pigs with wings
It is not easy to find pigs with wings on their back! They are rare and in many countries they are believed to bring luck . For this reason such a category is really precious! | Piggy banks: 3 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_32.jpg) | 32 - Spotted
These pigs are all covered with spots on their back. Black or brown spots for very special pigs. | Piggy banks: 18 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_33.jpg) | 33 - Those to be hanged
The common characteristic of these pigs is that they can all be hanged by a ring situated on their back. Also those from category nr 15 have this feature. | Piggy banks: 11 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_34.jpg) | 34 - The big pig gig
Series of american piggy banks, all hand-painted, all marked "The big pig gig" on the bottom. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_35.jpg) | 35 - Annaco creations
All the pigs of this series are marked "Annaco Creations" on the bottom. They come from United States, they are all decorated and hand-painted in many different ways. | Piggy banks: 2 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_36.jpg) | 36 - The erotics
This is the "red lights district" of my collection... These pigs are... very much in love, sometimes too much! | Piggy banks: 8 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_37.jpg) | 37 - Disneyworld
It's not easy to find pigs with the original "Walt Disney" mark. This series groups togheter all the most famous personages of Disney Word. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_38.jpg) | 38 - The washers
The pigs of this group have all something to do with washing: they have tubs, soap, brushes and all what might be used to be cleaned... But some of them don't really like to be cleaned! | Piggy banks: 9 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_39.jpg) | 39 - Colours!
Series of pigs very commercial, painted with shining colours. | Piggy banks: 3 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_40.jpg) | 40 - All round
It's a group of plain piggy banks with big ears and round body. It's easy to find them in United States and Europe, in different sizes.
| Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_41.jpg) | 41 - Gold
It's obviously the richest group of the collection! All these piggy banks are gold painted. | Piggy banks: 9 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CS_na_site_E.gif) | 42 - Ribbonned head
In this series are included only round pigs decorated with a ribbon on their heads. They have a typical, easily recognisable shape. | Piggy banks: 11 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_43.jpg) | 43 - Difficult life...
The only thing that all these pigs have in common is a difficult life, a brutal fall followed by a long reabilitation period...
They where in pieces and now they are back into the collection, after some unlucky trips or accidental hits. | Piggy banks: 8 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_44.jpg) | 44 - Spectacled
These pigs are easily recognisable from the big glasses hanging from their noses. In the collection we can find other pigs with glasses, but they have a different shape. | Piggy banks: 3 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_45.jpg) | 45 - Ladybugs and...
If you're looking for lucky days, you must find a four- leaved clover! All the pigs of this group have a four-leaved clover, a lady bug and a little mushroom on one side. | Piggy banks: 1 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_46.jpg) | 46 - Landscapes
Another group of tourist pigs with blue shades. On one or both sides they have a design of the landscape of the place where they come from. | Piggy banks: 6 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_47.jpg) | 47 - Golden nose
A set of small turistical pigs, characterized by a curly tail with a hole and a golden nose. Thanks to the shape of the tail, they can be hanged. They most probably all come from Canada. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_48.jpg) | 48 - Smiles
Series of smiling pigs, very commercial. In different sizes, you have a fat she-pig waiting for your coins. | Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_49.jpg) | 49 - The mountaineers
These pigs have pointed ears and round cheeks. Usually they have floral designs and they come from mountain places.
| Piggy banks: 4 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_50.jpg) | 50 - The curled up
A group of pigs of different size sitting on their front legs. They are usually decorated with classical floral designs. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_51.jpg) | 51 - The multiplex
Here you have mountains of pigs! They embrace each other, trying to keep the balance. | Piggy banks: 12 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_52.jpg) | 52 - Two wheels
In this set we have grouped all the pigs on two wheels. There are tough motorbike riders as well as patient cyclists, all provided with the best vehicles and equipment! | Piggy banks: 6 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_53.jpg) | 53 - Little pearl hearts
All the pigs of this touristical group are little pearl ceramic piggy banks with a coin slot on top. They have hearts for eyes, nose and tail. On one side there is a picture or a word that reminds you of the place where they came from.
| Piggy banks: 7 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_54.jpg) | 54 - Pig invasion
It's a multicoloured series of resin pigs, all marked on the bottom "Pig Invasion". With the same mark, you can find other pigs, but not for coins. They have an additional common feature: they stand with their legs on a coloured base, with a message. | Piggy banks: 1 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_55.jpg) | 55 - Blowed glass
Are part of this series all those pigs that are made of one-piece blowed glass. They have one hole on the top to enter the coins, but they do not have any bottom hole to get them out. | Piggy banks: 5 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_56.jpg) | 56 - Terracotta boxes
A set of piggy banks in shining or opaque terracotta, with big round shape and round nose. They do not have any exit hole for the coins, therefore to empty them, they need to be broken. | Piggy banks: 3 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CSmall/CS_57.jpg) | 57 - Azulejos
In this group you can find all the Portuguese piggy banks hand painted like the azulejos tiles. The azulejos adorn the inside and outside of almost every home and church in Portugal. All piggy banks are marked and with a number. | Piggy banks: 6 |
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![Click here for details](../Img/CS_na_site_E.gif) | 58 - Mudpie
They are all piggy banks by Mudpie, a company began 25 years ago with innovative and adorably packaged gifts. | Piggy banks: 2 |
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Total: 58 categories |