GUEST: This is a devil bank that I found in the Poconos at a local auction that my mom's been taking me to since I was a kid.

There's kind of a back room where they do box lots.

My mom told me, "Hey, look at this one box.

"It's got a bunch of old mugs in it, Mugs that you wouldn't really want."

But I was like, "All right, I'll-I'll bid-bid on it if you tell me to."

We ended up getting the box lot for ten bucks.

And, uh, this bank was in there, so my mom, you know, knew what she was doing.

APPRAISER: How old were you when that happened?

GUEST: Uh, I was probably about 11 or 12.

APPRAISER: Do you have any idea what the value is?

GUEST: I was saying about $300 to $400.

My mom said about $500, so I'll go-go with about $500.

APPRAISER: (soft chuckle) Either way, you're well, well beyond the ten dollar purchase price.

GUEST: Absolutely.

APPRAISER: So this is the two-sided devil still bank.

It doesn't have any movement or any motion.

If it had a spring-loaded motion, it would be a mechanical bank.

It is made of cast iron.

It's two halves and they're screwed together here.

And that's actually how you get the money out of the bank once you make the deposit into the top.

They're hand-painted.

And there are a lot of collectors for still banks as well as mechanicals.

They manufactured still banks in different forms: figural, such as this devil, architectural, animals, transportation.

All the figural still banks were designed to inspire kids to want to save money.

This actually was in production around 1910.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: Uh, I believe the devil was from 1904 to 1912.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: A.C. Williams is the name of the manufacturer of this bank.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Uh, and they're out of Ohio.

I'm happy to report that this is an original example.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: They did reproduce this.

In grading, the hand-painted still bank such as this, condition is king.

A lot of the high points on his nose, on his cheek, do show some paint wear and paint loss.

But you still have above average paint on this example.

His eyes and his teeth are really nicely painted and decorated.

They're accented well.

This is a very popular bank.

It's a relatively scarce one.

The estimation I would place on this for an auction would be $1,000 to $1,500.

GUEST: (chuckling): Wow, that's incredible.

That's even more than what I was expecting.

I mean, and like you said, a far cry from ten bucks.

That's incredible, oh, my God.

APPRAISER: That's, that's for sure.

That was a good box lot.

GUEST: Absolutely.

APPRAISER: If the paint was a bit stronger, the price would continue to notch up.

Commanding $4,000 or $5,000 for a two-faced devil is not, uh, too far of a fetch.

GUEST: Wow.

Wow, okay, well, no, I'm, I'm happy with this.

Wow, that's incredible.

(laughs)