Found Objects
Before painted inn signs became commonplace publicans would identify their establishment by hanging or standing a distinctive object outside the pub.
- Boot
- Copper Kettle
- Crooked Billet (a bent branch from a tree)
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“He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.”
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