Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign 18th century drawing of Garden of Eden eventually settling in Plymouth

eventually settling in Plymouth

I believe this is probably later 19th century

and what a charmer

where underpaint shows through as orange

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Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign 18th century drawing of Garden of Eden eventually settling in PlymouthI 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