Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign color mixing with its maker portraying himself

with its maker portraying himself legs-up inside of the ink bottle

) Price is for the pair

but have not found another exactly like it

each snug in its individual slot

--but are in overall very good antique condition

Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign color mixing with its maker portraying himselfThe way my mind works, this old McFalls arrow sign made me think about the ubiquity of "falls" of all sorts, literal and proverbial McFalls, like McMansions, etc.) and I really love how rather than miles at the arrow end there are now just black paint drips, as if McFalls had fallen off the map, and also itself sort of evincing the gesture of a fall. The McFalls in question is in fact Mechanic Falls, a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, which is near