Antique Large Hand-painted NOT on Pine etchings "Keep your promise"

"Keep your promise"

but no definitive Benton Rock that I've been able to pin it to

from the estate of a long time collector in New Hampshire

These were covered with protective yellow translucent films

or just as a box

Antique Large Hand-painted NOT on Pine etchings "Keep your promise"Surely this was cut down many years ago from a longer sign, which is a bit sad, but also makes it much more manageable (it's over 2 feet long as is) and of course I love the resulting concision of "NOT," lending itself to functioning as a comment on all sorts of contexts and situations. And what a beauty of an object, too, with these beautifully bold hand painted black capital letters against white painted ground, and a gorgeously weathered surface