Antique Double-sided Painted DENT / REMOVED Sign on Pine Plank drawing on wood panel Blouch of Lancaster

Blouch of Lancaster

held together it looks to me by just a couple of nails at the top and then a few more nailed in from the underside of the base

Vermont-based contemporary studio ceramicist widely known for slab-built vessels of a similar form but typically finished in more electric colors

Photos document each one

Signed at lower right with what looks like Wm Ritter

Antique Double-sided Painted DENT / REMOVED Sign on Pine Plank drawing on wood panel Blouch of LancasterThere are lots of things I love about this old sign, which shows much better in person, including for the fact that the black painted letters are raised in slight relief. It appears to have been cut down on the right end from a larger sign when I first saw it I assumed the "DENT" once read DENTIST, and may have, but the "REMOVED" on the reverse side suggests it could have be the sign if a car repair shop, and perhaps DENT was just DENTS. I of course