Along with a tower moneybox (collection object ASJ2025.12), this brass container was used for the “mission money” collection in St. John's Sunday School kindergarten section in the 1950s and 1960s, and possibly as late as the 1980s. At a set time of the lesson, Superintendent Miss Elizabeth Kiddle would pass the tower moneybox to one side of the room, and the metal pot to the other, and children would sing, 
"Hear the pennies dropping! Listen while they fall;
Ev'ry one for Jesus, He will get them all," 
with actions during the song. No doubt the coins made the appropriate noise when dropped into the metal container.
A maker's mark is hard to fully discern. It appears to be W & OS or similar. 

The collection pot is one of several items in the History collection that are known to have been part of the equipment of the Sunday School, and likely remained in use for decades.