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28" (71 cm.) The wooden-framed store front with lithographed marble-pattern paper cover, is designed as a late 18th century French post office, and is designed to hinge open to serve as a writing tablet for child. The post office contains a drop box with late-posted letters "le derniere levee", windows for sending telegraphs and buying postage, and a telephone booth ("cabine telephonique publique"), and has various supplies and tools including stamps, letters, scale, blotter, ink bottles and more. Very good condition, some paper rubs. French, N.K. Atlas, the parlor game company owned by Nicolas and Keller, circa 1900, is a fascinating view of communication possibilities at that time.