Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign antique wooden houses Fabulously strange and surely one

Fabulously strange and surely one of a kind

and will keep scooping them up when I can as I think they're lovely and make for a special means of delivering a little token of love or friendship

Their super painterly surfaces appear to be thickly applied enamel

Better in person

Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign antique wooden houses Fabulously strange and surely oneI found this one in Southern Maine and doubt it has travelled very far. Both the SLOW and the the STOP were hand painted; the former carefully stenciled and the latter obviously not as if stopping were an afterthought, or the red painted octagon didn't adequately communicate stop on its own! I am partial to the SLOW side myself, believing it a useful instruction and reminder applicable to most everything, but it occurred to me the STOP sign might be a