KEEP OUT PRIVATE Old Hand-carved Sign with Red Paint on Pine whimsey in a bottle the best known of the

the best known of the nineteenth-century penmanship instructors

Framed: 6 1/8" x 5 3/4" x 3/4"

enhancing the feeling of this as its own little homestead

and a flower and vine design around the perimeter of the base

A quick google search turns up that Vernon went on to become a composer

KEEP OUT PRIVATE Old Hand-carved Sign with Red Paint on Pine whimsey in a bottle the best known of theThis struck me as the perfect sign for an adolescent to hang the door of a secret club house! Pretty great anywhere, though, with the bent nails at top for hanging the perfect compliment to the fairly crudely carved letters enhanced with old red paint. Nice patina to the old pine panel, too. 18 1 2" x 7 1 2" t not including nails, x 3 4" thick. Overall good, stable and sound condition, with a little splitting at upper left, which I don't think