Our villages, Easterton and Market Lavington, have several letter boxes and some have been in place since the reign of Queen Victoria. We looked at one of them and some correspondence about it a year ago (click here).
But we are actually looking at a child’s money box this time. It is shaped like a pillar box and that’s something we don’t actually have in the villages. Here it is.
1930s money box in the shape of a pillar box for mail
The fact that it is a George V box dates it to between 1910 and 1936. We think it is probably from the 1930s. Children are invited to post their pennies and in those days they’d have been the lovely, big old pennies.
The other side of the box has information about the old British coinage.
The back of the box helped to ensure children understood the rather strange old British currency
This lovely little item stands about ten centimetres tall.
It was given to the museum by a resident of White Street in Market Lavington.
Market Lavington Museum 