Vintage Adams QEII Silver Jubilee Money Box 1977 – Hexagonal Coin Bank, God Save the Queen Anthem, Royal Tunstall English Earthenware

A 1977 Silver Jubilee money box from one of England's oldest potteries — Adams of Staffordshire, founded 1657, predating Wedgwood by a century. Hexagonal in form, finished in white earthenware printed in vivid royal red and cobalt blue. The top crown surrounds the central coin slot: red crown, the cipher E II R, the dates 1952 — 1977, and the title THE SILVER JUBILEE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II on a banner sweeping the hexagon. Around the six sides, alternating panels: red-printed silhouette portraits of the Queen in profile (after the Mary Gillick coronation effigy), and the verses of God Save the Queen set in blue text with red dropped capitals — the full national anthem reading around the box from face to face.

Adams of Tunstall was the busiest commemorative-ware pottery of the 1970s — producing mugs, plates, loving cups, and money boxes for the Silver Jubilee year alongside Royal Doulton and Wedgwood. The hexagonal money box is the most architectural of the forms: a small ceramic object that reads as graphic design as much as souvenir, in the bold red-white-blue palette of 1970s British print culture. A rubber stopper in the underside allows coins saved over the years to be retrieved.

The marks on the base read ADAMS® / Made in England in blue, identifying the maker and dating the piece to its Jubilee-year issue. A piece for the royal commemorative collector building the 1953 Coronation → 1977 Silver Jubilee → 2002 Golden Jubilee → 2012 Diamond Jubilee timeline, for the collector of British piggy banks and money boxes, for the 1970s Britannia nostalgist, or as a small gift to a British-heritage household.