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Description: | There are many different pillar-box shaped tins, by various companies, which are designed so that the empty tin could be used as a money box. Basing the design on the shape of a pillar box was perhaps an obvious choice, but while some are plain imitations, others add special decorative features. The first, a plain copy, for an unknown company, was made in 1897. Macfarlane, Lang and Company produced a similarly straightforward pillar-money box in 1902. Huntley & Palmers created a more elaborate version in 1906 - with two letter-money slots (one for home and one for foreign letters). This version, made for Peek Freans, breaks the realistic illusion of those boxes by covering the letter box with images of the coins that it will hopefully contain - clearly this example seems to have been well used! The green panel at the base of the post box, just visible in this photograph, reads "Take care of the pence and the pounds will look after themselves". Huntley & Palmers reprised the idea in 1933, with their 'Money Box' tin which, like this one, adds images to the suface of the pillar box - silhouettes of children playing in the snow around the box. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Peek Frean | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | communication coin pillar box money object | Temporal: | start=1902-01-01; end=1904-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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