Antique Double-sided Painted DENT / REMOVED Sign on Pine Plank drawing on wood panel with these fantastic tiny legs

with these fantastic tiny legs on its sides seeming perhaps to just be emerging

Someone not long ago either reframed it or replaced an old backing on the frame with a new piece of foam core

Signed at lower right with what looks like Wm Ritter

I know that this dragon fragment from an incredibly intricate mixed metal overlay on an antique Asian table

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Antique Double-sided Painted DENT / REMOVED Sign on Pine Plank drawing on wood panel with these fantastic tiny legsThere are lots of things I love about this old sign, which shows much better in person, including for the fact that the black painted letters are raised in slight relief. It appears to have been cut down on the right end from a larger sign when I first saw it I assumed the "DENT" once read DENTIST, and may have, but the "REMOVED" on the reverse side suggests it could have be the sign if a car repair shop, and perhaps DENT was just DENTS. I of course