Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina riveted figure and feature dark orange backs

and feature dark orange backs

with every bead in place (it most certainly has never been used)-- and inside that great green zipper is a nice gray lining

2 1/4” tall x 2 1/8” in diameter and in excellent condition

and a black interior

as what child would have any idea how to use this

Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina riveted figure and feature dark orange backsIn my younger days I spent some time as an art critic, and I can't look at this terrific Fire Exit sign now without wanting to write about it in conceptual terms, though I'm pretty certain that was not its maker's intent! But whether or not fully aware, what they definitely managed to do was to create a very singular copy of a ubiquitous utilitarian sign a gorgeously painterly version that as such also (re)invests the language of the sign with new and