Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy and light foxing and small

and light foxing and small stains here and there

and painterly pastel walls

I was completely sold on this pair of notebooks—created by a miss Beulah Ernst in 1922—by the cover of the “Weed Book” alone

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

Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box wooden mechanical toy and light foxing and smallI 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