Over six months ago, the museum was offered an object originating from the old post office on Haltestraat. It was an elegantly shaped iron bracket. The donor explained that she and her mother had salvaged the iron object during the demolition of the post office in 1956. Subsequently, it served as a lantern holder in her home for many years. She was unable to say what purpose the iron bracket had served at the post office.

In order to describe the object as accurately as possible in our systems, old photographs of the post office were studied. Might a sign have hung from it, or perhaps a lamp? Did it hang outside or inside the office? Despite extensive research, the object could not initially be traced. Thanks to persistence, the mystery was eventually solved. In one of the photographs, the roof of the post office on the Tramweg side was clearly visible. Under the gutter, a hopper head could be seen, supported by two brackets. The object was not a hanging bracket, but a support bracket.

We no longer have post offices in Zandvoort. The last office on Louis Davidsstraat had to make way for new construction (Albert Heijn) in 2014. The museum now possesses a small piece of the old post office, and we know exactly where it was located.