Wood
Less common than metal or tin, wooden banks offered clever designs—often disguised as furniture or using tilt mechanisms to deposit coins. These trick-drawer and leaning-figure styles add a unique charm to mechanical bank collections.
Wooden Banks: Hidden Tricks in Carved Collectibles
Though not as popular as other materials, banks were also made out of wood. They often were trick draw variants and mimicked furniture such as bureaus or drawers. Other wood banks are known as tilters and function by having a coin thrust into the bank as a figure leans to a building.