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Buying Old Postboxes - Some Notes for collectors new and old

Places to buy

Until 2003, it was possible to buy redundant boxes direct from Royal Mail. However, with the adoption of a blanket 'listing' policy jointly by English Heritage and Royal Mail, the process was halted. Today, boxes are either re-sited, scrapped or stored for further use. In special circumstances, a box may be donated to a bona fide museum if no further use can be found for it. Today the best places to find old boxes are in reclamation yards and on internet auction sites - although extreme care must be exercised to avoid handling stolen boxes or modern replicas posing as authentic historic items. You should expect to pay several hundreds of pounds for any genuine box, and these days, several thousand pounds for a genuine pillar box of any era, far more for rarer boxes.

IMPORTANT NOTES ON REPLICAS

Over the past few years, more and more replica post boxes have appeared on the UK market. Some of these are appalling things that resemble nothing to be seen on our streets! They are often made from old gas bottles - easily spotted as the are far too narrow. However, fairly good copies in cast iron and sheet steel of the standard 1940 pattern lamp boxes are now commonplace. These are harder to spot. Look for GviR boxes with 'Carron Company' on the door, or with four fixing lugs on the outer edges of the front casting. These are completely wrong for the period. The EiiR copy is much harder to tell apart. The real giveaway on all these copies is the circular barrel lock instead of the traditional Chubb five lever lock. The earlier 'Hovis' top lamp box has also been copied and is sold in E7R, GR and VR versions. The lock comments above also apply to these and also there are two fixing screws beneath the aperture which should be flat head. On the copies, these are cross-heads. No crosshead screws in 1897! Always challenge the seller to prove that the box is genuinely old and not a copy.

STOLEN BOXES

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Unfortunately this has become quite a problem in recent years. If a box is locked shut, with no key and especially if it still carries a modern Royal Mail plastic collection times plate DO NOT TOUCH IT. It is most probably stolen.

We are often asked 'Where can I get my own Post Box?'. It is not that easy, but these dealers are a good starting point:

Below Stairs -a well known antiques dealer in Hungerford. Will export

Unicorn Kiosks - The largest telephone kiosk reclamation centre in the UK, sometimes has boxes

Fagin's Antiques- Large reclamation yard near Exeter often has old boxes

Wells Reclamation - a large yard in Somerset has some (mostly pillar) boxes

UK Architectural Antiques - Specialist yard in Staffordshire - lists post boxes in Ebay Shop, prices are the tip end, but excellent stock

Salvo Web is the web portal for the UK Architectural Salvage community with links to many dealers

Surplus items we have for sale

Occasionally, we dispose of postal-related items which are surplus to our needs. These may include collection plates, time tablets or other parts no longer required for restoration. In addition we stock an excellent range of Shire Library publications covering post boxes, telephone kiosks and other street furniture. These are available by mail order.

Royal Mail Black Post Box Size

Royal Mail has unveiled four new black postboxes to mark Black History Month this October. A postbox has been installed in each UK country ahead of the start of Black History month and will remain in place until the end of October. The postboxes have been designed to honour black Britons and to pay tribute to Royal Mail staff.

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Replacing the classic red design, the postboxes have been painted all black with a gold trim. Each postbox also features a notable black Briton or a piece of work by them.

Those who are keen to find out more about these figures can use their smartphone to scan a QR code on the boxes, which will direct them to an online gallery on the Royal Mail website.

Peter De Norville, head of diversity and inclusion at Royal Mail said: “Black History Month is a great opportunity to celebrate the contributions that black people have made to this country over many generations.

Royal Mail Black Post Boxes

“We are also using it as an opportunity to celebrate the vital work that our black employees do throughout the nation, from the mailbag to the meeting room.”

Postboxes were also emblazoned with tributes to Sir Tom Moore following his fundraising efforts for the NHS.

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Royal Mail painted five postboxes outside hospitals, including St Thomas’ Hospital in London and the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, were emblazoned with ‘thank you NHS’.

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Royal Mail also painted a Sheffield post box gold after local Jessica Ennis took gold in the 2012 Olympics.