Pyrograph Sign, "May All Your Troubles End in Smoke" with Match Striker Oskar Hansen It is in great condition

It is in great condition

This is a fantastical landscape that one can get lost in

recesses to its two long sides

The wonderfully gestural surface decoration evinces a vertical sequence of blooms

both for keeping liquids fresh and preventing spills

Pyrograph Sign, "May All Your Troubles End in Smoke" with Match Striker Oskar Hansen It is in great conditionI'm pretty taken with this antique wooden sign decorated with pyrography, signed (burned) on the back with the initials of its maker (W. F. G) and the year 1906. It not only features a great rendering of a burning pipe and the text, May all your troubles end in smoke, but also a square of sandpaper adhered to the bottom left corner for striking matches, which is still rough and ready to do the job. I especially love the os inside of os, like smoke