Two leaves carry a single low arch across the pair, with strands of barbed wire strung beneath the top rail and a torn American flag cut clean through the plate panel below. The stripes open into a scene rather than a pattern — bears under pines and a mountain ridge on one build, galloping horses on another. A black finish, hung between peeled log posts under a timber header on one build and on plain square posts on the other.
Torn stripe ends are what open this panel up: the gaps let daylight and the ground beyond come through, so from down the drive the panel reads as a scene and only resolves into a flag close in. Stars, stripes and whatever the stripes open into all come out of one plate, so no part of the picture is tacked on and no part of it can work loose, and barbed wire crosses the band above where a formal gate would carry a scroll panel.
The scene is the variable. Both builds here share the same swept top rail, the same wire and the same flag, and change only what the stripes open into, which makes this the design to point at when someone wants their own subject in the panel instead of a pattern. Beside The Inman Gate’s formed scrollwork it is a blunter piece of work, and it belongs on a timber entry and open ground rather than between masonry pillars.
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