Vintage Varnished Wooden SOLE Sign colorfully painted figures with wonderful little pointy ears

with wonderful little pointy ears and a really charming face detailed with black paint on the eyes

I've found a close match of this bottle that describes it as 19th century

which this is

in a gold painted wooden frame that I think suits it fine

Vintage Varnished Wooden SOLE Sign colorfully painted figures with wonderful little pointy earsSometimes 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 I'm not sure what this "SOLE" sign was originally made to signal whether it was someone's last name, or made by a fish monger (my guess) or to hang in a cobbler's shop, or what.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