Something for you stamp collectors. I know this is a coin site.

 Here i peace of obsolete stamp history. I found at a resale shop. It is a stamp storage box,on the bottom. The middle has a sponge  to moisten the stamp. And a top to keep the sponge wet.

I have never seen one before. Have you. For back in the day when you had to lick your stamps.

yours daryl

Any markings of who made it? It’s very cool indeed.

Peter

“I know this is a coin site.”
I very much welcome anything non-coin related in the free discussion section. So many people just post coin-related stuff in there when the stuff they are asking could easily have been put in a correct channel. 

Neat stamp box too! I imagine using enough stamps to warrant having a storage box for them would also warrant not wanting to lick all of those said stamps :P

blue-m the only marking on it is made in Japan

Yes it was 2 dollars.

FlyingRedPanda when my sister was married, i put stamps on 300 invitations. But i used just a damp warm sponge. 

I know there are alot of stamp collectors here too

ALLRED1950

blue-m the only marking on it is made in Japan

 

Have a very nice day for the big pond Daryl.

     So, first of all, wishes for good health and many coins for the collection.

Yes, stamps and stamps, vouchers that replace money are closer to numismatics than exonumia, mints and copies (as I showed Morgan's copies in another thread)

Stamps really do replace currency.

However, it is not so certain that the mouse with the sponge in question was intended for sticking stamps.

Something similar is used by clerks when working with documents and manually counting cash or also for cleaning fingers - disinfection and the work of girls when beautifying their nails.

An interesting thing here is the announcement by the state that after 170 years, in a few weeks, they will stop paying adhesive stamps on official documents.

This is a request for an extract from the criminal record and a 50-CZK sticker had to be affixed, still valid for a few more weeks.

These are still valid stamps for various applications (registration in the land register. ,,apartment,, stamp 2000,-)

Stamps were introduced 170 years ago in our Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for the reason that officials did not come into contact with cash coins and thus reduced the possibility of their failure.

https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkov%C3%A1_zn%C3%A1mka

I think your bowl is intended for a bank or post office clerk.

Ahoj.

Ivan

I thought it like this: that the upper bowl is for putting down the stamp and the lower one for moistening the fingers when the clerk turns the sheets of documents.

ALLRED1950

blue-m the only marking on it is made in Japan

Yes it was 2 dollars.

FlyingRedPanda when my sister was married, i put stamps on 300 invitations. But i used just a damp warm sponge. 

I know there are alot of stamp collectors here too

I think the sticker dates your item to the 60's or 70's maybe. Probably mass produced but still good Japanese porcelain. Nice piece of history there.