Buildings For Sale at 1/2 Their Value: Vintage Photo of Sign in Snow and Dog carved wood bird It shows some wear around

It shows some wear around the edges and one scratch to the surface over the little barn/shed at right

No chips or cracks or other issues

(I quickly discovered they are quite the coveted objects

On the reverse it is both strung to wear and wired to hang

prior to merging in 1897 to become Blake and Knowles and moving to East Cambridge

Buildings For Sale at 1/2 Their Value: Vintage Photo of Sign in Snow and Dog carved wood bird It shows some wear aroundThis photograph feels like a novel to me, with something of a hard scrabble, Steinbeck ian sort of saga aspect to it. For me, there's quite a lonely feeling to that hand painted sign propped up in the snow and surrounded by fallen limbs, with this Border Collie (right?) looking on, as if contemplating its own fate. 5" x 7" and in good condition. Vintage print on matte paper.