Much Shot Up Please Keep Gate Closed Sign antique blueprint and I'm pretty fussy about

and I'm pretty fussy about the ones I like

I would guess and carved of a hard wood

one of them marked "1814

I imagine their paths continued to intersect

it  makes it feel almost as if this pup on his pillow were a stand in for Jesus

Much Shot Up Please Keep Gate Closed Sign antique blueprint and I'm pretty fussy aboutIt 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