Very Old Batten Door, Earlyish 20th C. Real Photo Postcard step stook and all the better with

and all the better with luscious red paint spelling out OPEN in  perfectly imperfect hand-painted bold lettering over top of it

but only a few traces on the front

most of all for its cheerful and unlikely use of color

Framed: 12” x 9 1/2”

The frame is in good condition

Very Old Batten Door, Earlyish 20th C. Real Photo Postcard step stook and all the better withA curious one, which seems to have been taken in a museum, with signage on the door and next to the pictures hanging on the walls to either side, just out of readable reach. I presume the batten door itself is a very early American one, with what looks to be a hole worn through at the center and with early windsor chairs framing it at either side, as if guards at the literal door. Framing and more framing and more framing, and I always love an old