KEEP OUT PRIVATE Old Hand-carved Sign with Red Paint on Pine whimsey in a bottle and a flower and vine

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

and found refuge in a gap in the gorge he was walking through

the best known of the nineteenth-century penmanship instructors

Some of the gold decoration has faded or worn away

and then more nails holding on the various super folky rudders and what not

KEEP OUT PRIVATE Old Hand-carved Sign with Red Paint on Pine whimsey in a bottle and a flower and vineThis 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