Lucky Joe Bank

This bank is featured at the Museum of American Glass, in Collectors Weekly and at Heritage Auctions. It is available @ Time’s Tin Cup !

Boxer, Joseph Louis Barrow, aka the brown bomber, is regarded as the most influential boxers of all time. He won 66 of the 69 fights he participated in his professional career. He won the Golden Gloves in 1934 and the U.S. National Championships.

Joe Louis was also the first African American to achieve the status of a nationwide hero. He even had an historic boxing match with German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938 which was instrumental as anti-Nazi sentiment during #WW2.

Portrait of boxer Joe Louis – from the Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress

The Nash-Underwood Food Products Company of Chicago released the Lucky Joe coin bank mustard jar in tribute to Joe Louis in 1938 under their farm to table line.