✅ SOLVED Some Kind of Storage Bank/Box???

[grasshopper]

Found this today at a mid-1800s cellar hole site. At first I thought I found someone's piggy bank! Unfortunately it was empty....

You can see there is a hook on the one side, and a slit in the middle for putting things inside. I thought it may have been a mailbox but then realized that the letters would not be able to be stuffed in without crumpling them.

Measures 6 1/2 " x 5 1/2" and about 3" tall.

Thanks!

 

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[mjlalt]

Maybe its a ballot box

 

[vhs07]

Looks like someone swiped the poor box from the church.

 

[Breezie]

Looks like someone swiped the poor box from the church.

I think vhs nailed it. It does look like a church poor box. Interesting find, Breezie

 

[taz42o]

I think you have the bottom(fuel tank) from a sad iron stove.

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[Breezie]

I think you have the bottom(fuel tank) from a sad iron stove.

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Taz has saved the church poor box, and replaced it with a sad iron fuel tank! Nice ID. Breezie

 

[grasshopper]

great ID!! Thanks everyone.

 

[vhs07]

Great ID. Thats what I love about this forum, I'm alway learning something new.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Great ID, taz42o. You literally took us from cold to warm with that one!
Very interesting find grasshopper.