KEEP OUT PRIVATE Old Hand-carved Sign with Red Paint on Pine whimsey in a bottle especially their labels

especially their labels

all the more so against the great old white

A quick google search turns up that Vernon went on to become a composer

Some of the gold decoration has faded or worn away

and found refuge in a gap in the gorge he was walking through

KEEP OUT PRIVATE Old Hand-carved Sign with Red Paint on Pine whimsey in a bottle especially their labelsThis struck me as the perfect sign for an adolescent to hang the door of a secret club house! Pretty great anywhere, though, with the bent nails at top for hanging the perfect compliment to the fairly crudely carved letters enhanced with old red paint. Nice patina to the old pine panel, too. 18 1 2" x 7 1 2" t not including nails, x 3 4" thick. Overall good, stable and sound condition, with a little splitting at upper left, which I don't think