Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery The frame shows wear and

The frame shows wear and what I believe is a some old paint along the left edge--I would probably leave as is myself because I am lazy that way

) Located in the Adirondacks of upstate New York between Lake George and Lake Champlain (the name derives from the Haudenosaunee term for "between the two waters")

very often haunted by a sense of melancholy or bittersweetness as I think is the case here

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

5 7/8 d x 3 1/8” t and in very good antique condition

Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery The frame shows wear andI 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