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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 15:21:16 GMT
[Posted by former member alexcandy.]Hi Before I really started to collect stamps I started to collect post boxes. ![]() This is my 1st one "La Poste" 1970's box  Second "La Poste" 1960's box  USPS 1940's box  My first Royal Mail Box (Its now had a coat of paint)  Second Royal Mail Box  And lastly (for now) Royal Mail George VI box. This was by far my most expensive, I would like an Edward VII but they seam to be a rare as hens teeth at the moment.  Alex
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 16, 2017 15:28:15 GMT
A really nice collection, Alex, thanks for posting the photos.
As a matter of interest, where does one acquire post boxes? Do you find them on eBay or buy them from antique dealers or some other way?
Just curious....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 15:57:33 GMT
[Posted by former member alexcandy.]A really nice collection, Alex, thanks for posting the photos. As a matter of interest, where does one acquire post boxes? Do you find them on eBay or buy them from antique dealers or some other way? Just curious.... My French post boxes came from eBay and were the cheapest. Around €200 each. La Poste is slowly updating their post boxes with more modern versions so they are fairly easy to find. The USPS box came from eBay and wasn't expensive, but shipping from the States was. The seller was an antiques dealer, USPS retired these wall mounted boxes a few years ago. You can still find them at Disneyland.  One of my Royal Mail Queen Elizabeth boxes came from a guy who had bought it from the Royal Mail in the 1980's. (It came with a tin of original paint). The other Queen Elizabeth box and the George VI came from a specialist dealer, who strangely are also responsible for the upkeep of post boxes at National Trust properties . My George VI box was by far the most expensive.
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Sept 17, 2017 5:09:42 GMT
Interesting. How do you display them?
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Post by tregeor on Sept 17, 2017 9:21:01 GMT
I love these post boxes! What a great way to receive personal letters, I am seriously thinking now of getting one and having it replace the letterbox in my door
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Post by Anping on Sept 17, 2017 21:15:51 GMT
Perhaps this site may be of interest to some: The Letter Box Study Group. It is rather awkwardly designed and frustrating, as the postbox images themselves are not identified; although these may be elsewhere on the site. Use the index on the left hand side of the screen to navigate. Here is an image of a 'mini post office', located in Frodsham in Cheshire, UK. There were only 50 ever made of these Vermillion Giants, of which only 5 remain. These were a combined telephone kiosk, letter box and stamp dispenser. Note the George V royal cypher on the hooded roof. These are now protected as Grade II listed buildings. |
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Post by jamesw on Sept 19, 2017 1:23:27 GMT
Do these count? Not full size, I know.  |
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Post by Jerry B on Sept 20, 2017 6:57:00 GMT
Hi alexcandy
Interesting! One question, where do you store these things?
Jerry B
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 26, 2017 16:58:16 GMT
While these boxes are not in my collection per se, I thought that they might make an interesting contribution to this thread.  This post box, with its novel paint job, sits just outside the Philatelic Museum in Tokyo, Japan  This is a vintage Japanese post box on display inside the Philatelic Museum, but no longer in service. |
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Oct 24, 2017 9:38:38 GMT
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 6, 2017 14:12:11 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 6, 2017 16:39:16 GMT
Thanks for keeping this thread going, Steve. I enjoyed watching the video. For me, as a classic movie fan, it brought to mind the end of Raider's of the Lost Ark, with a scene of an immense warehouse where the U.S. Government keeps all sorts of treasures. I am glad that they could lay their hands on this one and display it in the museum! Your post also reminds me that I had a couple more photos of post boxes to offer on this thread:  In contrast to the fancy, striped post box outside the Philatelic Museum in Tokyo, here is what a typical one looks like. This one is outside the Post Office in the Kudanshita neighborhood in central Tokyo, not far from the Royal Palace.  During my trip to Europe in late October, I spotted these post boxes in the main train station in Stuttgart, Germany. There is also a vending machine for stamps just to the right of the post boxes. |
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Post by Anping on Dec 6, 2017 16:57:47 GMT
Spotted this on Facebook yesterday; PTT postbox from Izmir in Turkey. Very elegant but would look better without the upstand and mounted on a stone/brick pillar; in my opinion. |
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Post by jamesw on Jan 1, 2018 22:51:57 GMT
Seen in Vancouver last week during Christmas visit.  Well, they have to get there somehow! |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jan 17, 2018 16:45:00 GMT
Last week, on a short trip to Las Vegas, I noticed this old-fashioned solid brass letter box in the lobby of the Palace Station Hotel. The hotel does not look that old, so I was a bit surprised to see it there. I remember this sort of mail box from the lobbies of many of the old office buildings in downtown Cleveland when I was a kid. I feel sure that these must be disappearing, too, so I thought I would take a photo and post it here.  |
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Post by Anping on Jan 18, 2018 18:24:01 GMT
That's a beauty.
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Post by judith on Feb 4, 2018 23:25:34 GMT
Milton-Under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, 1991
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Post by judith on Feb 4, 2018 23:26:55 GMT
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1991
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Post by judith on Feb 4, 2018 23:30:44 GMT
I miss the mailboxes. The ones in our town on street corners have been removed. Not sure why, Vandalism maybe? or perhaps email..... There are still two drive-up boxes at the post office, but that requires getting in the car. I would rather walk a block or two.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 27, 2018 20:24:24 GMT
All right, it seems time to revive this neglected thread, too! Thanks to Xavier ( hrdoktorx) for his post in the Postmark Calendar thread depicting post boxes and tagging me in the process. What Xavier neglected to mention is that the way that he and I realized that we were both stamp collectors is that during a lunch gathering at work, I was showing photos from my Baltic cruise last month, and after every few photos of scenery, there was one of a post box. I informed those to whom I was showing the photos that the reason for all of the images of post boxes was because I was a stamp collector, and at that point, Xavier smiled and said that he was a stamp collector, too. So, I have to thank the fates that I had not yet removed all the photos of post boxes from my phone when I went to show them to those at the lunch gathering, or else I may never have figured out that Xavier is a stamp collector, just like me. It was a great moment! Pictured below are two very different post boxes found in Tallinn, Estonia. The top one is located at the main post office, and so it is clearly a new-looking box, but of a very traditional style and design. The second image is of a more modern style post box found on the streets of Tallinn. Despite the modern design, note the traditional post horn image.   |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 27, 2018 20:59:53 GMT
Just for fun, a cover with four different designs of German "Automaten" stamps, featuring some post boxes as well.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 18, 2018 18:34:24 GMT
Booklet pane from Canada: Rural Mailboxes. Sc#1852a, from 2000.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 28, 2018 22:37:39 GMT
A nice block about Royal Mail postboxes, issued in 2009 by England.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 13, 2018 19:13:56 GMT
A pretty letter box I just found down the corridor on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I am this week. Unfortunately no longer in use.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 25, 2018 15:36:05 GMT
According to this Mauritius stamp, the island uses the British-style pillar box postbox. Maybe salentin can confirm?  |
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Post by coastwatcher on Feb 7, 2019 4:15:07 GMT
Here is a miniature sheet issued by Royal Mail for Christmas 2018. These are among my favorite secular Christmas stamps.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 13, 2019 21:42:46 GMT
Block from Spanish Andorra featuring a pillar-style post box, although I don't know if they use that model there:  |
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Post by sherro on Feb 20, 2019 13:03:12 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 29, 2019 19:58:34 GMT
Great Britain - Oxford, England
King Edward VII Era Post BoxI often find myself snapping photos of post boxes during my travels, but I don't do anything with most of them. This time, my wife and I just spent last weekend in Oxford, England, and while there wasn't too much in the way of philatelic opportunities there overall, as a resourceful stamper, I was alertly on the lookout for anything of interest. As it happened, a mere block from our hotel was a beautiful condition KEVII era post box, still in service, and in excellent condition on the street corner. It was great to see such a real classic, still doing its duty for sovereign and country! I noted from the last post in this thread made by sherro back in Feb-2019, that the example of the KEVII post box he had seen in 2014 had been welded shut with a closed sign over the slot, and had been painted pink. I was glad to see that this one was still fully operational, and looking to be in top form. Long live the King! Edit: After additional review of Sherro's last post, I see that he also saw a KEVII post box still in service, in addition to the one which had been welded shut. OK, well, I like the paint job on this one extremely well, as it happens..... 
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 29, 2019 20:46:34 GMT
Post Boxes of France 1850-1930
Display at the "Fête du Timbre" (National Stamp Day), March 2019Back in March, Xavier ( hrdoktorx) and I went to the nationwide stamp day here in France, and at the exhibition in Sisteron, we found a nice display of French post box history, complete with some examples from representative eras. This was a great large table-top display, and these photos only cover part of it. Some great pieces of history were shown here.  Table-top display dedicated to post boxes of France.  A very early France post box circa 1850.  France post box circa 1900, which was so detailed that it displayed which day of the week it was, how many pick-ups scheduled that day, and how many had been completed.  France post box from a rural area, circa 1911.
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