Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery 8 1/16" x 6 5/8"

8 1/16" x 6 5/8"

NH -- an estate turned grand resort hotel that opened to the public with fanfare in 1883

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

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

but in case not evident there is a sort of carved bolt that extends from one of the architectural cages to the next

Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery 8 1/16" x 6 5/8"I 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