Very Old Heavy Cast Iron PRICE Arrow Sign folk art shelf though unmarked

though unmarked

but the black

with cigar box paper announcing "the real thing"

suggesting that it would have been hung from something and worn

together with the text below it

Very Old Heavy Cast Iron PRICE Arrow Sign folk art shelf though unmarkedI love objects bearing words or phrases with the potential to resonate in all sorts of contexts, and also just love good words. (I had a great friend in college who chose her brand of cigarettes by the strength and potential connotations of their names, favoring Trues, Merits, Mores, and Parliaments in alternation.) Price feels the same: so many places to put it and point it toward, and so many ways to then read it. And this cast iron PRICE is quite