This 1960s posting box is sometimes to be seen in the shop window (minus the little red handle to lift the lid, which has inevitably been lost but some of the wooden bricks have survived). Of course some people looking in the shop window may wonder, what on earth? But to us it makes perfect sense: good design; wood not plastic; a focus on the domestic and children; an emphasis on the Europeanness of Persephone Books; vintage not modern; oh so many reasons.