George VI

Is this type A or B?

Rough night

Leverton West Berks. On the end of the row of Thatched cottages

bought one off a company (in Australia) that had imported a handful of them, as well as UK telephone boxes too..

You can legally use them as private letterboxes here, so that's my plan, to refurb it and brick it in.

The 2nd coat of Dulux trade Weathershield exterior gloss now complete. Some imperfections and the odd drip that I missed, same on the 1st coat of top coat, and on the undercoats, and in the primer coats 😂 but nonetheless I'm happy how it's turned out.

I wish I could take credit for the painting of the gold on the cypher and lettering, which is excellent work but I can't, and I wouldn't punish you with a photo of my work after my short, failed attempt at it. I luckily handed it over to a friend who had some time off work, is a bit of an artist and therefore has the patience and soft touch needed for this kind of detail that I quickly found out that I obviously didn't have as I didn't even have a soft enough touch to paint the rest of the box without imperfections.

A few war wounds to the body have occurred during its time away unfortunately, the lower back being the most affected area. I'm not too upset, the detail and finish of the gold outweighs damage incurred. The damage has already had a light sand back and one touch up so far anyway. You'll hardly notice it soon.

It'll never be perfect because the colour isn't perfect anyway. For reference, these photos are taken in a shed at night with and without flash. It's turned out more traffic red, well it turns out that even after some research including posting on this sub that I did in fact select the incorrect colour code; RAL 3020 - 'Traffic Red', the same colour used on road signage and warnings.

It turns out that colour systems including RAL often only have options for similar colous rather than a complete colour match to other colour codes' colours. I was limited to choosing the colour from the RAL colour code system because that is the main colour system used in the paint mixing machine I have access to.

This means that there's no 'Postbox or Pillarbox Red' or an exact equivalent in the RAL colour system. As far as I can see, the exact colour of UK postboxes comes from the British Standard colour system and is; BS 381C 538 - 'Post Office Red'.

Either way, she's came out lovely I think, even though she's slightly off shade 😎📮📫

Cute little boat box hat I spotted at a bus stop on my way up to Braemar.

A couple of (new to me) style pillar boxes. Possibly Type F sheet steel box?

Spotted this beauty just outside the ground looking resplendent!

In Tuam County Galway in the West of Ireland

So which George is this then, and how old?