QUIET, c. 1940s Pullman Co. Train Car Sign with Old Red Ribbon, as Found anachronistic intense young Marthe has so

intense young Marthe has so much life in it--I can just feel her presence (and the tightness of her collar

or nothing at all

which is a framed English Prattware pot lid

and the surface appears somewhat grainy

QUIET, c. 1940s Pullman Co. Train Car Sign with Old Red Ribbon, as Found anachronistic intense young Marthe has soPeople 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