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Sign Painter's Trade Sign

Object/Artifact

Wooden sign painter's trade sign. Image includes the tools of a sign painter including several kinds of brushes, palette, T-square, wooden bucket for lead paste, tin turpentine container, palette knife with paint mixed, and tin cup. It is believed there was once matching decoration on both sides.

2025.13.001

The donor believes this sign was found in the house of an acquaintance who bought the house from the State of New York. The house was originally located at the Dept of Environmental Conservation's Lake Erie Fisheries Unit, in Dunkirk, NY, and she moved it a couple of hundred feet to its present location.

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Signs

circa 1860 - circa 1870

19th Century

Western New York

New York

United States of America

North America

21-3/4 in

53 in

Wood

Western New York

New York

United States of America

North America

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