SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign pins A small loss to the

A small loss to the tip of her nose

Just the right scale of tool box for the essentials

and was happy to find another

Beautifully constructed

Mongol and Afghan invaders

SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign pins A small loss to theA 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