Pyrograph Sign, "May All Your Troubles End in Smoke" with Match Striker Oskar Hansen This is a fantastical landscape

This is a fantastical landscape that one can get lost in

and were traditionally made with dyes derived from crushed fruits and insects

both for keeping liquids fresh and preventing spills

which I have not attempted to polish

Pyrograph Sign, "May All Your Troubles End in Smoke" with Match Striker Oskar Hansen This is a fantastical landscapeI'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