1905 · Coin-Operated Stamp Dispenser · Werk 730 von 1.871

A coin-operated vending machine of 1905 fixed to the plastered wall under the columned portico of the general post office in Wellington, a narrow upright cabinet of honey-coloured varnished oak seventy-two centimetres high and thirty-two wide, with panelled sides, on its front a tall narrow plate of dark cast metal with a coin slot at the top, a delivery slot below, on top an arched wooden piece holding a round glazed disc, plain, a hand in a dark sleeve bringing a copper coin seen edge-on to the slot, from the lower slot a short end of a narrow red paper strip, grey harbour light from the left.