Manufacturer: Carr China
User: Farmers Trust and Savings Bank
Distributor: Mutual China Co., Indianapolis, IN
Date of bowl: 1917 – 1952
Notes: Originally chartered in 1892 as the German Savings Bank in Earling, Iowa, the bank became the Farmers Trust and Savings Bank in 1917. In 2009, the bank had three southwest Iowa branch locations in Earling, Woodbine and Harlan. Click here for the FTSB website.
The bank has been a long-standing sponsor of the Clay County Fair, as evidenced by the September 1959 full page advertisement in The Spencer Daily Reporter of Spencer, Iowa, shown above.
White body with green band border. Topmarked with the Farmers Trust and Savings Bank logo in green.