Much Shot Up Please Keep Gate Closed Sign antique blueprint Signed to the bottom right

Signed to the bottom right of his turtleneck in pencil with what appears to read R

made for holding writing brushes

from a sketchbook of her work

it seems to me the small bag of colored paper bits may be stand ins for printed money

and I'm pretty fussy about the ones I like

Much Shot Up Please Keep Gate Closed Sign antique blueprint Signed to the bottom rightIt seems there were a good number of people who failed to keep the gate closed! I presume this sign was wired to a chain link fence gate or similar (with one wire still hanging from the bottom edge), making it easy to take aim at it from the back side, with most of the shots having come from that direction. And with the concentration of those shots (product of a bb gun I believe) densely clustered at the center, one thinks that the owner of the sign