Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina antique needlepoint I think the self-referential pen

I think the self-referential pen and ink drawing on this antique French postcard is pretty fabulous

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Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina antique needlepoint I think the self-referential penIn my younger days I spent some time as an art critic, and I can't look at this terrific Fire Exit sign now without wanting to write about it in conceptual terms, though I'm pretty certain that was not its maker's intent! But whether or not fully aware, what they definitely managed to do was to create a very singular copy of a ubiquitous utilitarian sign a gorgeously painterly version that as such also (re)invests the language of the sign with new and