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Trade Sign
Title
Trade Sign
Date
1992
Medium
Metal
Dimensions
16 x 8 3/8 x 1/8 in.
Description
Reproduction chomolithographic tin sign; scene of a girl in a red floor-length coat with black fur trim carrying a basket of holly and brown paper wrappped packages standing in the snow in front of a house. It reads at the top in red "Merry Christmas", and at the bottom in black "Compliments of the Season/ Desperate Enterprises/ Wadsworth, O." Formerly F-44.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.2213
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
