Wall Boxes Around The World
The wall box has proved to be a very resilient design. It has been widely adopted by French postal authorities with a succession of finely detailed and often ornate boxes in France and its dependent territories.
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1985 pattern large wall box at Les Mesnils Garnier, Normandy
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1944 Pattern wall box inside Le Mont St. Michel, Brittany
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1930 sheet steel box at L'Abbée de La Lucerne, near Granville, Normandy
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French wall box of the 1977 pattern now on display at the Colne Valley Postal History Museum, Essex.
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French Aerial Post box from the 1930s, now in a UK private collection.
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French Post Box at Dinard airport
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The standard post box of the former Soviet Union
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