Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy Figures are in excellent condition

Figures are in excellent condition

and painterly pastel walls

one would just need to wind a string around the wooden peg at top

Quite a remarkable document of the time

Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy Figures are in excellent conditionI have a pretty deep relationship with the post office as it seems (very thankfully!) I spend half my preparing boxes to bring them, and I still find it amazing that one can just put something in the mail and have it be carried across the globe! And so, of course, I lit on this immediately when I found it in Maine the other day 19th c., tin, painted black with stenciled lettering reading (more or less) "Post Office Delivery." I assume likely this