An Early 19thC Painted Pine Sign for the Solemnization of Marriages; Hockliffe Chapel poa-item the challenges of "making do"

the challenges of "making do" through long northern New England winters

united by stretchers survives from the last quarter of eighteenth century England

the edges of each figurine nicely smoothed

5 inches (with neck)

An Early 19thC Painted Pine Sign for the Solemnization of Marriages; Hockliffe Chapel poa-item the challenges of "making do"Origin: EnglishPeriod: RegencyProvenance: Hockliffe Congregational Chapel, BedfordshireDate: c. 1825Height: 11. 5Width: 26. 5Depth: 1. 25The wonderfully decorative painted pine thick rectangular board, sign written This place of worship is licensed for the solemnization of marriages in gold script to a black ground, with a raised border and hanging loop, surviving from the Hockliffe Congregational Chapel, Bedfordshire and the first quarter of