 | carved eagle
Painted eagle with widespread wings, carved from a single piece of wood. The head faces right, with a snake in the eagle's beak; one claw holds a shield with three stars; the other claw holds two red-draped arrows. Definitely an American eagle, it may show Mexican influence, in that like the Mexican... |
 | Tavern Sign - "Wm. Buell"
Painted wooden sign with wrought iron. The rectangular sign board has a dark olive green frame enclosing a sign board with large polychrome illustration of white dog holding a pheasant in its mouth against a forest background and blue sky with clouds. A band across the bottom reads, in gold-leafed... |
 | J. Kelsey Tavern Sign
This tavern sign is oval in shape and bound with a wider hoop. Yellow background with black lettering. One side reads "J. Kelsey's Inn. 1824" with a picture of a green bowl on a red table in center. The other side has the same inscription with a picture of a wine jug and toddy glasses. |
 | Refreshment stand sign
The painting is nearly gone, but one side of this sign reads "Gingerbread & Cider." and has a faded picture of a cider pitcher & tumbler on either side of a gingerbread board. Enterprising citizens often set up gingerbread refreshment stands on town commons for public celebrations and militia... |
 | Tavern Sign - S.V. Carpenter's Inn
A tavern sign for S.V. Carpenter's Inn, but the name is abbreviated in a different way on each side of the sign. |
 | Trade Sign - "B. Holt"
This large square sign with models of shoe lasts is marked "B. Holt, 1813". |
 | Tavern sign
This tavern sign, inscribed "J. S. Morse, 1828" has its original hardware. |
 | trade sign
This trade sign hung from a wrought iron bracket features a large watch sign with figures and "MUNROE" across the face. From the John Munroe Collection. |
 | Tavern Sign - "C. Hayes"
This rectangular signboard has a gilt edge around a black frame, enclosing a painting of a military equestrian figure, perhaps intended to represent General and President Andrew Jackson. This military officer wears a chapeau-de-bras (hat), a uniform coat with two spaulettes and a gilt braided... |
 | Trade Sign - "Jesse Hitchcock, Shoes & Boot Maker"
This sign hung in front of Jesse Hitchcock's shoe shop in Brimfield, Massachusetts. It is a horizontally oblong sign with molded frame. Against a black ground in the right upper section are the words "Jesse Hitchcock, Shoe & Boot Maker". On a white ground are pictures of a high black boot to left... |
 | Tavern Sign
The sign is framed by two upright posts and top and bottom bars painted black with two wrought iron straps at the top for hanging. Outside the frame on a round is a scalloped edging of wood painted red. At the bottom of the scalloping in gold paint on black is the date 1830. Inside the frame at... |
 | Tavern Sign - "B. Dean"
This sign is painted on both sides. It consists of 2 turned uprights with wrought iron straps for hanging and a slotted wooden bar at the top and bottom. The posts are painted black. The sign itself is a rectangular piece of wood scalloped on the sides. Across the top it reads: "B, Dean, Jr." Under... |
 | Tavern Sign - "J. Brown's Inn"
This tavern sign consists of a single rectangular board in a frame with scalloped and ogee outer frame. The outer frame has symbols of hospitality and plenty, i.e. a pineapple at the center top with cornucopia filled with fruit at either side and with feather and scroll decoration painted in gold... |
 | Tavern Sign - "G.W. Mowry"
This sign is the prototype for the "Bullard Tavern" sign on the common at Old Sturbridge Village. It is made up of 3 wide pine boards and framed with applied molding. Background of sign has blue-green hills with gray-blue sky, 2 large gilt 5-pointed stars, one in each upper corner, and a smaller... |
 | Tavern Sign - "G.W. Mowry"
This sign is the prototype for the "Bullard Tavern" sign on the common at Old Sturbridge Village. It is made up of 3 wide pine boards and framed with applied molding. Background of sign has blue-green hills with gray-blue sky, 2 large gilt 5-pointed stars, one in each upper corner, and a smaller...
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