Red and White ARTS Large Vintage Hand-painted Wooden Sign ghost The basic story

The basic story

perhaps fellow trick-or-treaters

Francois-Joseph I (Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)

(It does seem likely that one of the signatures on the back was done by a teacher

Red and White ARTS Large Vintage Hand-painted Wooden Sign ghost The basic storyThough still quite long surely this sign was surely once longer I might guess relating to martial arts of some sort, though it is the right end that was cut off (quite some years ago, and it has aged quite a bit sense), so perhaps it read Arts of Japan or Arts of China? I love the succinctness of just "ARTS" now, and the great red lettering against creamy white, all aged to a great surface. So many contexts this could be good in I think, and with its