Slow + Stop! c 1940s Much Used Handmade Wooden Crossing Guard Sign auman pottery and this cast brass one

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)

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

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 and this cast brass oneI 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