Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box cool watercolor Clearly the left image was

Clearly the left image was printed more darkly than the right

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

Hand built of earthenware/terra cotta

is a clearly much loved old shop brush with a gorgeous patina-and much life in it yet

with BLACKSTONE across the center diagonal

Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box cool watercolor Clearly the left image wasI 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