Trailer Space (Phone 35), Old Hand-painted Free-standing Sheet Metal Sign rebus plates with a very kind and

with a very kind and gentle little face to boot

but the backs are all blank

And how much more civilized to use these to brush lint (and dog hair

So many sorts of things I can’t resist—wooden blocks being one

and I like that the head of the hare rests gently on white cloth

Trailer Space (Phone 35), Old Hand-painted Free-standing Sheet Metal Sign rebus plates with a very kind andThe lanky, creamy white hand painted capital letters against rusty surface really do it for me on this sign, seeming just right for advertising a trailer space and I imagine this sign sat right on the site of said space. The small "Phone 35" at lower right makes it even better I'm inclined to think this is not as old as the era of two digit phone numbers (pre 1920 or so I believe), but rather existed within a rural community where multiple extensions