REPENT Old Hand-painted Sign in Black and Gold alpine landscape I believe mid 19th century

I believe mid 19th century on this charming oil on board river scene

Woven of sweetgrass and dyed ash splint

a brilliant early iteration of sample polling among focus groups

I know that this dragon fragment from an incredibly intricate mixed metal overlay on an antique Asian table

REPENT Old Hand-painted Sign in Black and Gold alpine landscape I believe mid 19th centuryThe second of two "REPENT" signs I've had this month, which perhaps is the universe telling me (or the collective us) something! I really love the make do matter of factness of this one, looking like wood repurposed from a piece of furniture and with just a little gold edging to the capital black painted letters to add a sense of the holy. Plus a pair of steel loops at either end to allow for it to be very sturdily tethered to something, and a nice