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Sign for a stage coach, with gold lettering outlined in red on a black field. Long, narrow, horizontal format with three-sided edges.
signs (declatory or advertising artifacts)
wood (plant material)
oil paint (paint)
poplar (wood)
signs (declatory or advertising artifacts)
Wood
Tulip Poplar
Oil Paint
Sign
In gold paint with a red outline, in capitals, across the board is: TEN CENT STAGE . In the lower center of the board, in gold paint is: M.L. Horton . At the far left, some initials are carved into the board: I H [?] .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Horton, M. L. (Maker)
USA
4 3/10 x 31 x 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.355
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