Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery I will remember thee

I will remember thee

and this cast brass one with foot at the end of the tamping post has a sort of Carl Auböck feel to me--and as my instagram icon is a Carl Auböck brass foot

like me (who might also use it just for drawing angles and straight lines)

and with the two-toned green one a great anchor for the group

Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery I will remember theeI 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