A Hand-Painted Wooden Sign that Reads "Potter" Found in an Old House in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts

This is what I suspect is a twentieth century hand-painted American wooden sign that I picked up this past spring, although I do not know much about it. The sign's script reads "POTTER," although the type of the script and the construction of the sign reminds me more of signs that were produced in the late 1800s and early 1900s; however, I am not positive of that. 

Furthermore, the dealer (or picker) who I bought it from had just pulled it out of an old house in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts. I believe it was the same property that I purchased a nineteenth century New England-made black painted oval top table for my mother for her birthday this year, where the known history of that table was that it was found in a nineteenth century farmhouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. I should also mention that both of the these objects were purchased at different times from the same picker.

Additionally, the farmhouse, along with a period barn that went with it were about to be torn down for modern construction (the house ended up being saved and renovated while the barn has since been torn down); this picker told me that when he arrived there was a large dumpster in front of the house and some of the contents from the property were in the process of being thrown into it. He said he did retrieve some objets from the dumpster, although to his knowledge, there was never an estate sale or any type of auction before this happened. I was also told that the family who lived in this farmhouse had occupied the property dating back to the 1800s, and the table was most likely original to that family's ownership. Interestingly, there are round impressions all along the rim of the oval top on the table from where apple peelers were applied to it through the years (the property did have apple trees at one time).

A Hand-Painted Wooden Sign that Reads "Potter"

Probably American 20th Century Hand-Painted Sign that Reads "Potter"

Recently Discovered in an Old House in the Merrimack Valley in Mass. 

Measures 20 3/4" in Length

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