View on the collections of the museum Postes restantes

Here you have photographs of objects of the museum until now used to illustrate our little story of the script and the post office.

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Horn (brass, 18th century), banner of postilion and applied ornament forming a horn for mailbox, © Musée Postes restantes

Foreground, from left to right : tiny travel inkwell, school bakelite inkwell, double removable inkwells with their enamelled earthenware stand.
At the top on the left : inkwell with 2 small pots, a central nib towel and 4 hooks for the dip pens; in front of  the left pot, mention "FIXE", in front of  the right pot mention "A COPIER". On the right : pewter travel inkwell. © Musée Postes restantes

Scrapers, 19th century, © Musée Postes restantes

Foreground, in the pliers : Roman stylus, © Musée Postes restantes

At the top :  Quill cutter, steel 7,5 cm, 19th century.
Under, on the right : Quill cutter, 12,5 cm, ebony, steel and brass strap, 19th century.  On the left, detail of the previous object: the tool to cut fixed under the brass strap, © Musée Postes restantes