I found this "Snoopy" bank at a garage sale a couple weekends ago for a quarter. He was a little dirty, but cleaned up nicely. I'm fairly certain it's a knockoff and not a licensed Peanuts product, especially since it doesn't say "Snoopy" anywhere, nor are there any copyrights given to United Features. Based on his look, I believe he's from the early to mid 1960's. A good friend told me a friend of his collects knockoff Snoopys and calls them "Snoppies" because of the misspelling on one she has. This is definitely a "Snoppy".
Either the bank was never used, or the kid had mastered the old butter knife penny removal trick.
I ended up selling this Snoopy on eBay last week for $10.
now that's a great snoppy!
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