Open House / Auction Hand-painted Double Sided Old Wooden Sign League at Work series complete with cigarette hanging out

complete with cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth

This watercolor comes from a collection of landscape by an unknown artist portraying landscapes from the Lake District and Isle of Wright in the UK--popular travel destinations of the era

The box is finished on all sides and has a nice patina

sort of like a modern day Scream

on both ends in most cases

Open House / Auction Hand-painted Double Sided Old Wooden Sign League at Work series complete with cigarette hanging outI love original, truly one of a kind old handmade signs in all their brilliant variety, but I also love more straightforwardly functional ones, like this double side Open House Auction sign (and two others, for Gifts and Open House Auction that I found along with it, listed separately), which can be used to mean exactly what they say, or creatively strategically hung to comment on their context. I love that the color and style of the text is