Perfectly Minimal Hand-painted Barber Shop Sign on Masonite stanley ruler and definitely pretty old

and definitely pretty old

12 1/4” x 10” x 5 3/4” and in very good condition

which vary greatly in terms of degree of darkening during firing

and also lovely

Now an iconic symbol of the suffragette movement

Perfectly Minimal Hand-painted Barber Shop Sign on Masonite stanley ruler and definitely pretty oldI'll never get over the beauty of inky black painted lettering against a field of creamy white paint, and even better that it should be used to spell out BARBER SHOP in the absolute most no fuss (and to my eye absolutely perfect) manner possible. The sign was executed on masonite, smooth on its face; perhaps once with a border that resulted in the hard edge to the white pained surface (?), or perhaps the perimeter was simply taped off. Better in