Once a month on this blog we’ll look at a product that was manufactured by Confer Plastics, Inc. in days gone by. For our initial installment we’ll look at the Colonel Sanders piggy bank.
We manufactured this product in 1977 and 1978 for the Margardt Corporation which was run by the Colonel’s daughter, Margaret Sanders. Known as his “Spicy Daughter”, Ms. Sanders, who once went searching for the lost city of Atlantis, toured our facility which at the time was housed at the end of the Roblin Steel complex.
The piggy bank was available in three different colors: red, yellow, and white and it was the classic Colonel pose…bespectacled, cane in hand, holding a bucket of KFC. It stands about 8” high and has a coin slot in the bank.
The banks were distributed as giveaways at Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants throughout the United States. Over the life of the project we made tens of thousands of these banks. Many of them can now be found as collector’s items on EBay, selling in the $5 to $12 range.
We manufactured this product in 1977 and 1978 for the Margardt Corporation which was run by the Colonel’s daughter, Margaret Sanders. Known as his “Spicy Daughter”, Ms. Sanders, who once went searching for the lost city of Atlantis, toured our facility which at the time was housed at the end of the Roblin Steel complex.
The piggy bank was available in three different colors: red, yellow, and white and it was the classic Colonel pose…bespectacled, cane in hand, holding a bucket of KFC. It stands about 8” high and has a coin slot in the bank.
The banks were distributed as giveaways at Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants throughout the United States. Over the life of the project we made tens of thousands of these banks. Many of them can now be found as collector’s items on EBay, selling in the $5 to $12 range.
