Join or Die ~ Do Thou Great store Liberty Wood Hand Painted Sign

Here is a great antique looking sign that I will Paint for you.
Hand Painted and designed by ©Mill River Primitives 2022.
It is a variation of the usual Join or Die flag design. It was found on an old newspaper THE store MASSACHUSETTS SPY. I loved this new design and have not seen it painted or posted anywhere on the internet so I would like to think I am the first to re-use it present day. The sign is painted in layers of brown, black and aged white with black letters that I then sanded and aged for an old early look. A wooden edge painted black completes the look.

The sign measures roughly 6" x 48" and has 2 hangers on the back. Each sign is unique and the wood has different characteristics but will look similar to the one shown. All my signs will arrive branded.
*This sign is meant for indoor use. You will need to seal this sign with a waterproof sealer if used outdoors. I recommend resealing it every year to continue to protect it.

~"Join, or Die" is a well-known political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.[1] The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America.[2] It is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the American colonies or regions. New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies it was at that time. In addition, Delaware (then a part of Pennsylvania) and Georgia were omitted completely. Thus, it has eight segments of snake rather than the traditional 13 colonies.[3] The two northernmost British American colonies at the time, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, were not represented, nor were any British Caribbean possessions. The cartoon appeared along with Franklin's editorial about the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity. This cartoon was used in the French and Indian War to symbolize that the colonies needed to join together with Great Britain to defeat the French and Indians. It became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.~