Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy making it appear as if

making it appear as if this shoe has just stepped on a wad of gum

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

first produced in Germany in the 1860s-- and as someone who believes little pick me ups are essential to life

and light foxing and small stains here and there

Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy making it appear as ifI 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