QUIET, c. 1940s Pullman Co. Train Car Sign with Old Red Ribbon, as Found antique handmade stool keeping its owner safe and

keeping its owner safe and sound

All carved from one piece of wood with no notable chips

horsehair I assume

A man being asked the time  / of day took out his watch and said / The time past twelve at noon / Was just equal to four fifths of the time / From then til twelve at  / night

Food Administration- founded in 1917 to administer food reserves for the U

QUIET, c. 1940s Pullman Co. Train Car Sign with Old Red Ribbon, as Found antique handmade stool keeping its owner safe andPeople who know me know I like my quiet, most of the time, really, and this is just the sort of sign I would hang above my desk (were my desk not the kitchen table or the coffee shop!) I also really love a double entendre with the "retired" on this 1940s Pullman train sign reading more readily now as if referring to those among us no longer working (and not much tolerant of those raucous youngsters!) And in this case, with red ribbon wrapping the hole