Red and White ARTS Large Vintage Hand-painted Wooden Sign folk art portraits but the spoon component is

but the spoon component is gone

This piece is in great antique condition and measures 14 1/2" long x 8 1/2" wide x 4 1/2" tall at highest point (exterior sides measure 2 1/2" tall

I first picked this up because I liked it as a box--old

who I understand was an early 20th century Kansas based folk artist

Red and White ARTS Large Vintage Hand-painted Wooden Sign folk art portraits but the spoon component isThough still quite long surely this sign was surely once longer I might guess relating to martial arts of some sort, though it is the right end that was cut off (quite some years ago, and it has aged quite a bit sense), so perhaps it read Arts of Japan or Arts of China? I love the succinctness of just "ARTS" now, and the great red lettering against creamy white, all aged to a great surface. So many contexts this could be good in I think, and with its