Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box heavy platter like this donkey

like this donkey

but I think likely they were part of a model railroad

13 1/2" x 8 1/2"

made in Japan circa 1940s

Rare Antique Tole Painted Wall Hanging Slotted Postal Delivery Box heavy platter like this donkeyI 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