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Tavern sign: oval with raised edge; two twisted iron hangers at top. White background with black scroll at top. Below is a red-feathered eagle outlined in yellow with arrows and laurel sprigs in talons; a ribbon held in its beak. At bottom, a black band reading "J. Bartlett." From the Old Bartlett Inn in Kensington, NH.
shop signs
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
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Symbol, Trade
Symbol, Trade
Typewritten on jelly label on upper right of edging: Entry Signboard from old Bartlett Inn, Kingston, N.H., about 10 miles from Haverhill, on west of rt. 125 to Rochester. In gold letters repainted yellow on black scroll at top: 1838 In canary yellow on ribbon at eagle's beak: E PLURIBUS UNUM In gold on black band at bottom: J. BARTLETT
Original To Bartlett Inn,
Unknown
30 x 37 x 1 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.746
New Hampshire (United States)
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