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Material: Softwood
Folk Art Hand Painted Wooden Trade Sign
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Folk Art hand painted double-sided wooden trade sign dating from the early 20th Century... 1920s? 1930s? A wonderful whimsical sign most likely...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Pharmacy Sign 'DRUGS' Painted on a Single Board
Located in Nantucket, MA
American folk art trade sign from an apothecary or pharmacy with the word 'DRUGS' in black paint with white shadow lines on an orange ground. Painted on a single pine plank with notc...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine, Paint
Early 20th century English Hand Painted “HELL” Sign
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century English Hand Painted “HELL” Sign
Originally this sign was reclaimed from a shoe shop named “Shellington Shoes” in Essex. Most of the sign was damaged but we luck...
Category
1920s British Victorian Vintage Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Country House Horse Stable Name Plaques Signs
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A charming collection of six, hand painted Horse stable name plaques.
Each plaque is pine, with an ebonised painted ground and gilt lettering. Age related knocks and abrasions comm...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
18th or 19th Century French Ship Chandler's Trade Sign
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th or 19th century French ship chandler's trade sign, circa 1800, an oval pine double sided sign built with large dove-tails, advertising Cooperage and...
Category
1790s French Folk Art Antique Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Late 17th/Early 18th Century Polychrome Tobacconist Figure Sign Folk Art Carving
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large carved and polychrome painted tobacconist's figure almost certainly 17th or early 18th century
For a related example see Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 412, plate 436.
Originally this may well have been a tobacconist's shop window figure. For a similar, but slightly earlier unpainted example, see Sotheby's, The W. J. Shepherd collection of treen, 30th November 1983, Lot 393, illustrated in Pinto "Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking", plate 1.
Carved wooden figures, often painted, were placed outside tobacconist's shops as signs from the 17th century onwards. The earliest of these figures is the 'black boy' or 'blackamoor'. 'At the sign of the black boy' or 'at the sign of the blackamoor' was a popular address for tobacconists since the early 17th century. The 17th century figures...
Category
17th Century English Antique Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Old Vintage Fun Wooden Hand Painted Sign 'No Parking' Decorative Wall Shelf Art
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A fun hand painted wooden sign reads ‘NO PARKING THIS MEANS YOU’ – Definitely some British humour!
A very old sign, probably dates back to Mid 20...
Category
20th Century British Folk Art Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Pine Barbers Pole
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Pine Barbers Pole
A simple example of an early 20th Century handcrafted painted pine barbers’ pole. Showing signs of wear and natural aging as shown.
Dimensio...
Category
1920s Unknown Folk Art Vintage Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Early-20th Century Boul Club Sign
Located in London, GB
Early-20th Century Boul Club Sign
A complete one off, in the form of a hand carved / painted oversized Boul club advertising sign dated 1922. Completely u...
Category
Early 20th Century French Folk Art Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century English Shop Display Dummy Board
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century English Shop Display Dummy Board
A unique early 20th Century English hand-crafted shop display dummy board. In the form of a 1st World War “Squaddie” in Uniform made by Stening Signs of Catford” South London established in 1879. This huge display...
Category
Early 20th Century British Folk Art Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
Impressive Huge 19th Century Pawnbroker Folk Art Sign with Three Spheres Symbol
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An impressive rare and monumental in scale folk art pawnbroker trade sign with its original trio of giltwood spheres which represent the universal symbol for the pawnbroker trade.
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Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Softwood Signs
Materials
Wrought Iron
19th Century Cobbler Trade Sign
Located in Nantucket, MA
A carved cobbler's boot-form trade sign, in old gold paint.
Carved in two pieces of pine, capped with lead,
circa 1870
Very good condition, measures: 14" x 9 ½”.
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Softwood Signs
Materials
Lead
Recycled Pine Wine Bar Menu, Black Board a Good Handsome Piece
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Recycled pine wine bar menu, black board
A good handsome piece simply made with 4” old pine and waxed and polished
The attractively bordered board is r...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Softwood Signs
Materials
Pine
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A four mast 18th century ship in a bottle, English folk art circa 1920
Located in Central England, GB
This very good example has been hand built in a smaller sized square bottle than normally seen. It contains a large four mast 18th century ship fully rigged and with open sails leaving the shoreline which has high cliffs and buildings whilst about to pass a lighthouse. The scale and detail are very good and it has been very nicely hand painted. These rare folk art bottles...
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1920's -30's Hand Painted "DRUGS" wood sign
Located in Buffalo, NY
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17th Century Primitive Religious Carving Oak Panel 1631
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
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This rare piece comes from France, the somewhat Primitive carving shows the Madonna and Child sitting on the Devil who is depicted as a li...
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Vintage School Crossing Safety Guard Folk Art Trade Sign
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Original hand painted school safety crossing guard sign. Sheet metal and wood. Great original surface. Has original leaning brace mounted on back, but c...
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Antique Folk Art Reverse Painted and Foil Exhibition Sign in Gilt Frame
Located in Nantucket, MA
Folk Art exhibition sign, reverse painted glass with reserved text backed in gold and silver crinkled foil reading "Exhibition / of / Paintings / on / Glass / By Edgar F. Curtis"
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Early 20th Century English Folk Art Whirligig Figure
Located in London, GB
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1950 Vintage American Folk Art Band Stand Hand Painted Goofy Jazz Music Stand
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand painted band stand folding music stand, circa 1950s. Great folk art design and Goofy dog painted. Possibly from the Jazz Mill in Phoenix. Great wall han...
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H 30.5 in W 24 in D 4 in
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A Colossal Early 20th Century Hand Carved Pine Golden Eagle Sign
Located in London, GB
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Located in Batley, GB
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Painted wooden trade sign
Located in Grange-Over-Sands, GB
An early 20thC painted wooden trade sign for C H Grimes Boot & Shoe Repairer. In untouched original condition, the drab brown ground with black painted lettering. Dimensions; H 41cm ...
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Enormous Fyffes Bananas Advertising Display 1930's
Located in Hastings, GB
Truly one of a kind advertising display/prop for the Fyffes banana company, hand crafted from wood with a papier-mâché & plaster overlay and hand painted, dating to the 1930's thes...
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Late 19th/Early 20th Century Folk Art Sign Stick No Bills
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rare and untouched early 20th century hand painted on wood sign "Stick no Bills"
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Early 20th C Cast Lead Pointing Hand Fairground Circus Curio Antique Folk Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
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Late 19th Century Cigar Store Carved Wooden Indian Tobacconist Trade Sign
Located in Lowestoft, GB
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H 79.53 in W 22.05 in D 14.57 in
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Located in Lowestoft, GB
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H 64.97 in W 24.02 in D 1.97 in
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Recycled Pine Wine Bar Menu, Black Board a Good Handsome Piece
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
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A good handsome piece simply made with 3.5” old pine and waxed and polished
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19th Century Oddfellows Freemasons Walshingham Norfolk Lodge Door Pelmet Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A hand painted pine door pelmet from the "Loyal Walsingham Lodge"
The lodge was a branch from the Manchester unity, an Independent Order of the Oddfellow...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Softwood Signs
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H 13 in W 54.73 in D 3.55 in
Early 20thc Antique Reverse Painted Jewellers Silversmith Watchmaker Trade Sign
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Early 20th century reverse painted and gilt trade sign, for a Watchmaker, Jewellers & Silversmith.
The piece has a wonderful decorative look, age related losses and pitting. But what remains is adhered to the glass not...
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Early 20th Century English Softwood Signs
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H 28.35 in W 20.08 in D 1.19 in