SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign barrel The velvet backed frame has

The velvet backed frame has an easel back from standing or can be hung from the strung

This one I found in New Hampshire (almost into Vermont)

and wood panel back

the folkier and more singular the better

SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign barrel The velvet backed frame hasA 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