Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign interesting spoon Solid wood with litho printing

Solid wood with litho printing I believe

as if one might store a little something inside

thus the bulging gullet

There are a couple of stains on the face

but I'd keep them in the kitchen to use for straining various liquids and who knows what else

Old McFalls (Mechanic Falls, Maine) Hand-painted Directional Sign interesting spoon Solid wood with litho printingThe 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