Antique American Gilt Cast Iron Optometrist Trade Mercantile Store Sign NY 1880 Decorative Arts Our Tête-à-Tête is ready to

Our Tête-à-Tête is ready to make its way from our showroom to grace your home

The pale blue basin is finely & beautifully hand-decorated with enameled polychrome decoration

He also painted around several still life pictures and a few paintings of the mountains in New Hampshire and Vermont

but we do have three identical benches if you wished for more than one

The top having cut corners with a band of blue around the rim

Antique American Gilt Cast Iron Optometrist Trade Mercantile Store Sign NY 1880 Decorative Arts Our Tête-à-Tête is ready toSOLD A rare antique 19th century American Folk Art gilded and painted cast and hand forged iron optometrist trade sign, New York circa 1880. American trade signs of this nature were popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries featuring hand painted symbols that were placed outside of mercantile stores to represent the specific trade of the owner. This large sign has the original hang forged hanging iron rod, allowing the sign to be attached to the