British Postal Museum and Archive blog
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about an unidentified object that had been transferred to us from the former post office in King Street, Maidstone.
This blog prompted numerous suggestions as to what the object was. Thank you again for all your suggestions, and for all the extra details of when it might have been used and in which department – it’s been really helpful.
Together with our curator we seem to have reached a consensus that this object is probably a blower used for removing dust, so thanks goes especially to those who put forward that idea.
We’re going to make a note in our records that this is the likely identity of the object, and we’ll also be recording the fact that this conclusion was reached out of a discussion with our blog, Facebook and Twitter users.
This was written by archives assistant Clare George on the British Postal Museum and Archive blog on 9 July
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about an unidentified object that had been transferred to us from the former post office in King Street, Maidstone.
This blog prompted numerous suggestions as to what the object was. Thank you again for all your suggestions, and for all the extra details of when it might have been used and in which department – it’s been really helpful.
Together with our curator we seem to have reached a consensus that this object is probably a blower used for removing dust, so thanks goes especially to those who put forward that idea.
We’re going to make a note in our records that this is the likely identity of the object, and we’ll also be recording the fact that this conclusion was reached out of a discussion with our blog, Facebook and Twitter users.
This was written by archives assistant Clare George on the British Postal Museum and Archive blog on 9 July
