What is it???
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Okay Will and Mike, you convinced me. I still don't understand all the peg work on the ends?? Maybe there was an ornate bracket that held the box?? why the pegs on the lid??
I don't know, but since we haven't gotten any other explanations, I'm going with these guys.
I wonder if my Mailman would drop mail in it if I put it up?? :thumbsup:
Oh, one other interesting note. Look closely at the name casting on the end of mine, it's stamped "CENTURY POS TCO". They put the space between the s and t in the word post, rather than between the t and c. The one pictured in Will's post is spaced properly. Kinda like finding a two headed coin or something....
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ovrszd,
I don't know if you caught my reply over in the build it yourself forum but here it is again.
Quote:Originally Posted by ovrszd View Post
I started a Thread in owner/operator section about an item I was trying to identify. Will and Mike have convinced me it's a Mailbox. Now I'm looking for one that is complete so I can reproduce the flag and mounting brackets. Anyone got one of these that's complete???]QUOTE
WOW, I think this may be the type of mailbox I was talking about in my earlier post (below) that they cranked up the hill. As soon as I saw your photo I remembered the boxes rode up on 2 cables, one on each side and those nubs sticking out of yours may be how they attached in some kind of framework.
QUOTE SMILEY["Years ago 3 families lived on a dead end dirt road near me, on top of a steep hill that was closed when it iced up or snow got too deep. They usually parked a car at the bottom and took a tractor down if someone had to get out. One even had a garage down there. Their mail was delivered at the bottom of the hill on a different parallel road, in sideways boxes attached to a cable set up like a clothes line trolley at least 300 ft long. They had handwheels at the top and would crank the boxes up. To avoid cranking it up if there was no mail, they just had small spring loaded rods with a flag on the end that was released when the mailman (or little p-pots) opened it and then would reset the flag before sending the box back down.
They finally got regular service in the early 60's when the steep grade was flattened and road paved.]QUOTE
As I think about it, I think those nubs on the side were used to adjust the angle to the slope of the hill so the box stay level on the ride up and down. The next time I see a friend who lived in one of the houses I mentioned, I'll ask him about it.
I checked the boxes shown in the national postal museum photo's and the one similar to yours, without the nubs, were what we used in the winter time so we didn't have to shovel out the mailbox in the days before snowblowers and small tractors. We just mounted them on a post about 2-3 ft long and stuck it in the snowbank where the mailman could get at it. Then you hoped you got to it before the plow threw it behind the snowbank. If I remember correctly ours had a pretty secure latch on it so the mail didn't go flying all over when the plow hit it.
I don't know if you caught my reply over in the build it yourself forum but here it is again.
Quote:Originally Posted by ovrszd View Post
I started a Thread in owner/operator section about an item I was trying to identify. Will and Mike have convinced me it's a Mailbox. Now I'm looking for one that is complete so I can reproduce the flag and mounting brackets. Anyone got one of these that's complete???]QUOTE
WOW, I think this may be the type of mailbox I was talking about in my earlier post (below) that they cranked up the hill. As soon as I saw your photo I remembered the boxes rode up on 2 cables, one on each side and those nubs sticking out of yours may be how they attached in some kind of framework.
QUOTE SMILEY["Years ago 3 families lived on a dead end dirt road near me, on top of a steep hill that was closed when it iced up or snow got too deep. They usually parked a car at the bottom and took a tractor down if someone had to get out. One even had a garage down there. Their mail was delivered at the bottom of the hill on a different parallel road, in sideways boxes attached to a cable set up like a clothes line trolley at least 300 ft long. They had handwheels at the top and would crank the boxes up. To avoid cranking it up if there was no mail, they just had small spring loaded rods with a flag on the end that was released when the mailman (or little p-pots) opened it and then would reset the flag before sending the box back down.
They finally got regular service in the early 60's when the steep grade was flattened and road paved.]QUOTE
As I think about it, I think those nubs on the side were used to adjust the angle to the slope of the hill so the box stay level on the ride up and down. The next time I see a friend who lived in one of the houses I mentioned, I'll ask him about it.
I checked the boxes shown in the national postal museum photo's and the one similar to yours, without the nubs, were what we used in the winter time so we didn't have to shovel out the mailbox in the days before snowblowers and small tractors. We just mounted them on a post about 2-3 ft long and stuck it in the snowbank where the mailman could get at it. Then you hoped you got to it before the plow threw it behind the snowbank. If I remember correctly ours had a pretty secure latch on it so the mail didn't go flying all over when the plow hit it.
