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Customers and Communities : Reaching Rural America : Folk Art Mailboxes

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"The wood trap holds a large size mailbox and the red claw takes the place of the signal flag. On the end of trap two wood fish made of mahogany. Red, white and blue buoy holds a wooden dory with traps and fisherman rowing. . . .White anchors on blue post hold the trap. Fourteen small painted wood fish move with prevailing winds." —Kenneth Reed of Warren, Maine

A lobster trap mailbox










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