P.A. Baker, Silver Foil and Reverse Painted Glass Nameplate with Scalloped Edge wool weaving with red inside the mouth

with red inside the mouth as the perfect final touch

and I believe quite old--it has the feeling of French tapestries to me

with tilted cross atop this lookout platform seeming to me either to forbode a coming disaster or to mourn one having recently occurred

or hung on a wall

P.A. Baker, Silver Foil and Reverse Painted Glass Nameplate with Scalloped Edge wool weaving with red inside the mouthPerhaps not everyone shares my enthusiasm for old nameplates of unknown people, but I love the idea of a vast collection of them a community of long lost friends. A perfect vehicle for a study of styles and fonts, too. And hard to beat reverse painted black glass and silver foil with scalloped bevelled edge as far as styles go. Plus I thought just the right thing for, say, a bread maker from Pennsylvania! 4" x 1 1 2" x 1 4" thick. Black painted tin