Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy Due to shrinkage over time

Due to shrinkage over time

especially ones with marbled paper covers

which I think enhances the potency and resonance of the word itself--here is a box of CAKE

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 Due to shrinkage over timeI 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