SOLD "Free Penny's For Meter's" Poorly Punctuated Vintage Make Do Sign! monk I can never pass by

I can never pass by old turned wood salt spoons

with just a tiny loss of paint in a couple of spots

5 1/4" x 4 1/8"

but certainly that is what this is

with an expression that seems both surprised and keenly alert

SOLD "Free Penny's For Meter's" Poorly Punctuated Vintage Make Do Sign! monk I can never pass byI found this one in New Bedford, MA the other day, and assume it was once displayed in a shop or office or maybe a school, pointing to a stash of pennies to use for the parking meters just outside. I love it for the penny's instead of pennies, and the meter's made possessive all the more so for the fact that those apostrophes were cut down by hand from other letters so had plenty of time to be considered. It seems to me it must have taken a fair bit