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1827
GUSN-8543
Board mounted within frame; ball finials top and bottom. Grain-painted; mustard-yellow. Top is shaped in half-moon; bottom has broken arch. Both sides are alike.
shop signs
boards (flat objects)
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
business (commercial function)
crescents (shapes)
Painted
Commerce
Board
Iron
Moon
SIGN, TRADE
Lettered in black paint on board: 1827./WIDOW/LYDIA/LITTLEFIELD
Subject Widow Lydia Littlefield Tavern,
Widow Lydia Littlefield Tavern
Unknown
37 x 21 x 1.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.759
Maine (United States)
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