Sign
- Title:
- BANK OPEN / WALK IN
- Object Name:
- Sign
- Object ID:
- 1966.550.08
- Date:
- circa 1826
- Description:
- Sign. Merrimack County Bank, Concord, NH; c. 1826. Painted wood. Horizontal oval board with integral loop for hanging on one long side. Entire sign painted gray-white on both sides. Stylized border of small leaf-like forms around edges of oval on both sides. Black lettering on both sides, one reading "BANK OPEN. / WALK IN." and the other "BANK SHUT." Letters composed of a combination of fine and wide lines.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-11.4 W-15.5 D-0.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Found with the large sign from Merrimack County Bank (1966.550.05) and presumed to have been used at the same bank. This institution was organized under this name in 1826, at which time they built the three-story brick building on North Main Street, later owned and occupied by the New Hampshire Historical Society. It continued at this location until 1866 when at the expiration of its third charter the bank voluntarily closed its doors while in perfect solvency.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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