Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box cool watercolor he or she sure looks

he or she sure looks like a very good and kind old friend to me

but whoever drew her seems to have been tremendously enamored with her loveliness

I love an old folk art box with inlays

Clearly the left image was printed more darkly than the right

perhaps by way of Walter Gropius when he came to teach at Harvard

Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box cool watercolor he or she sure looksI 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