Vintage Varnished Wooden SOLE Sign wooden snake and its box too

and its box too

I've seen a few of these online but had never come across a pair out in the world until finding these the other day

and the little hand-painted windows on the sides

and I think just excellent

but how much fun to put this at the center of a dinner party table filled with bouillabaisse

Vintage Varnished Wooden SOLE Sign wooden snake and its box tooSometimes I feel like things were made just for me to find them. Like this one. As you probably know by now, I love found language, and especially words and phrases that have the capacity to take on different meanings in different contexts. I'm not sure what this "SOLE" sign was originally made to signal whether it was someone's last name, or made by a fish monger (my guess) or to hang in a cobbler's shop, or what. But for me, who loves people but