logologo-optometry

Cardboard post box for spectacles

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Catalogue Number: 4172
Cardboard post box for spectacles
Category: Memorabilia and ephemera
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: c1920
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Description Of Item: Post box, 135mm L x 35mm H x 57mm D, of light brown heavy card, with slip on lid and metal re-inforced corners. Hand addressed to 'Messrs W Wood & Co/ Wholesale Opticians/ !7 Equitable Place/ Little Collins Street/ Melbourne'. Box bears 2 franked postage stamps, each marked 'AUSTRALIA POSTAGE/ 1 1/2/ THREE HALFPENCE', issued in 1918.
How Acquired: Donated by Pamela Sutton
Date Acquired: March 2022
Condition: Good
Location: Archive room. West wall. Unit 2 Drawer 2

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