Vintage Varnished Wooden SOLE Sign wooden Pinocchio circa 1827

circa 1827

"Star 219"

The graphics of the faces I think are just terrific

I've found some citations of art reviews he wrote for the Chicago Reader in the 1980s

and are also pretty handy

Vintage Varnished Wooden SOLE Sign wooden Pinocchio circa 1827Sometimes I feel like things were made just for me to find them. Like this one. As you probably know by now, I love found language, and especially words and phrases that have the capacity to take on different meanings in different contexts. I'm not sure what this "SOLE" sign was originally made to signal whether it was someone's last name, or made by a fish monger (my guess) or to hang in a cobbler's shop, or what. But for me, who loves people but