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1850-1870
GUSN-2569
Long, narrow octagonal board with brown painted background (sanded) with a gold stripe and lettering, surrounded by a molded enframement.
shop signs
oil paint (paint)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
trade (function)
Pine
Oil
Painted
Trade
SIGN, TRADE
1) Gold painted caps across signboard: ""N. LITTLE"". 2) Gray painted caps at center below (1): ""C. Henry Adams"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Adams, C. Henry (Maker)
9 x 36 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.760
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