SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign pins Beautifully constructed

Beautifully constructed

it appears as though the woman at right is levitating above her found companions

and was happy to find another

Just the right scale of tool box for the essentials

which makes the surface almost tar-like

SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign pins Beautifully constructedA bit of a mystery, at least to me, but to my eye a wonderful and evocative one and the inked lettering spelling out Shut Open Open just makes me swoon. At first look it seemed perhaps to be a shop sign, indicating open or closed hours, but with a heavy lead weight covering almost the entirety of the back, and an eye hook at top, it must have pulled up or down, perhaps functioning as a gate or door weight, with the shut not referring to closed hours