keith - Why not save your daily pocketcoins in the house, and every month try to find a "new" around the corner or internet?
But I think we have long way and time to go, if we shall have so much as this collector like:
http://www.lothargraff.com/Amazing!
Anne E.B. - your second, blue cat is very in style Bitossi. Can you tell about it?
And here some other moneysavers.
1. A swedish red shoe from Gefle about 1915.
2. A nice dog in style as of from Staffordshire, but maded in the faiencefactory Tillinge i Sweden, by danish potters from Bornholm (a danish isle). Same ones and other animals have been made there too, and the origins is from England.
3. Two though ducks, with same history as above. C:a 1890-1900.