SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign pins Beautifully constructed

Beautifully constructed

A small loss to the tip of her nose

and would look pretty cozy hung near a fireplace

which makes the surface almost tar-like

It is marked England on the interior

SOLD Shut Open Open, Curious and Beautiful 19th Century Lead Weighted Sign pins Beautifully constructedA bit of a mystery, at least to me, but to my eye a wonderful and evocative one and the inked lettering spelling out Shut Open Open just makes me swoon. At first look it seemed perhaps to be a shop sign, indicating open or closed hours, but with a heavy lead weight covering almost the entirety of the back, and an eye hook at top, it must have pulled up or down, perhaps functioning as a gate or door weight, with the shut not referring to closed hours