Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina riveted figure The box is stamped Phang

The box is stamped Phang Kim Tjoeng and Banka Blinjoe on the bottom

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

I don't really know the story of this wonderful

but the wheel turns smoothy and it seems ready to be put to use baking something delicious

Red and White Hand-painted Fire Exit Arrow Sign with Perfect Patina riveted figure The box is stamped PhangIn 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