SOLD "Free Penny's For Meter's" Poorly Punctuated Vintage Make Do Sign! black duck decoy Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

but I can of like to combination of that and the crazing

where the Knowles Steam Pump factory operated in the last quarter of the 1800s

Sight: 15 1/2" in diameter

quite stable

SOLD "Free Penny's For Meter's" Poorly Punctuated Vintage Make Do Sign! black duck decoy Watercolor on paperI 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