2-699-284 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Lion's Head at Button's.', (1881). Letter box decorated with a lion's head, at Button's Coffee House on Russell Street, Westminster, London, and used for literary articles in the 18th century. 'A letter box in the form of a lion's head with open jaws was put up at Button's for the receipt of contributions to The Guardian' [newspaper]. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]