A Real Survivor Victorian Treacle Glazed Figural Money Box in the Form of a Monkey with His Cane

The money bank is formed niavely into a stylised monkey holding a walking cane, he is ceramic and is covered in the most glorious deep honey brown treacle glaze. When I acquired him, I was advised he was most likely from a Staffordshire Pottery dating to about circa 1860. Although not unusual for the Staffordshire Potteries of this period he is not marked, but I have begun to wonder whether he maybe from the Scottish Potteries as I did come across some similar treacle glazed examples of money banks although none were of monkeys. In fact in all my research I was unable to find another example so I guess this does make him pretty rare. And of course the other wonderful thing is that this money bank has survived in such good condition all these years as there were only two ways to get your money out, one was to smash it and the other is to put a knife through the slot, to coax the coins out.