Antique 31 Inch Hand-painted CALICO Sign tourist kachina 3 1/8" long x 2

3 1/8" long x 2 1/4" tall x 5/16" wide

cylindrical vase with sculpted

which he executed in Taden (a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France)

The diagonal cuts on the opposite sides of the blocks allow for all sorts of  stacking possibilities

whose recently deceased father had been an architect and great collector

Antique 31 Inch Hand-painted CALICO Sign tourist kachina 3 1/8" long x 2I'd guess this wonderful old sign was hung inside or outside a general store or similar advertising calico fabrics, but of course I also like the image of a litter of calico kittens it brings to mind! Most of all, though, I like the hand painted black letters themselves the skinny second "C" in contrast to the fatter first one, the bold, decisive "A" and "I", and especially the kick at the end of that great "L"! All set against creamy white on a rough