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"Y" sign, Quimilí, Santiago del Estero ImageImage
Old wayfinding/distance signs with patches from the change to alphanumeric route markings, Emerald, Queensland ImageImage
Sign for a median cut to allow gas trucks to turn left into a gas station, Lares, PR ImageImageImage
Overhead directional sign in Johannesburg, from before the change from the FHWA to DIN font, but with icons and modern arrow-per-lane signage. Image
Inexplicable route shield for the M93 on the M37, Germiston. I think I read somewhere that the shape of the shield is based on a pre-colonial armor design. The italic initial on the bottom is the cardinal direction in English/Afrikaans. ImageImage
More South African route shields, these for the N12 South and the R62 East/Oos Image
Some faded older South African route shields, these in the FHWA font instead of DIN. Unlike the later ones, the FHWA shields didn't use italics for the cardinal direction. ImageImage
Fun fact ImageImage
One-way arrow, Eswatini Image
Adopt A Highway sign, Snug, Tasmania ImageImage
Some analog video shots of East German autobahn signage ImageImageImageImage
A Dead End Street sign in the old Bureau of Public Roads font Image
End Peel St. detour, begin rue Peel detour? Image
A road sign with an arrow made from an em dash and a greater than? Image
Another sign for angle parking, San Antonio de Areco
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Trilingual Hungarian/English/German road sign, Budapest, 1977 Image
Possible vintage FHWA Series A sighting!? (“Pedestrians”). The sign looks old enough that it could have been installed before Series A was outlawed. ImageImage
Ends ImageImage
Another "right turn on red permitted" sign, this one from Uzbekistan Image
A small Dead End sign with dazzle pattern, near Grande Prairie, AB ImageImageImage
A nonlingual temporary weight restriction sign near Grand Prairie ImageImage
No Parking and Parking Permitted signs along a one-way street in Gálvez, Santa Fe Province ImageImageImageImage
Borderless diamond-shaped white-on-green "No Thru Route" sign, St Mary, Missouri ImageImage
Repurposed stop sign, Josefina, Santa Fe Province ImageImageImage
Non-MUTCD "Slow" sign in Franklin Gothic Image
More of the blocky old Uruguayan road sign font ImageImageImageImage
Overhead gantry-mounted village entrance signs in Uruguay ImageImageImageImage
White-on-black No Right Turn sign from the 1972 Columbo episode Étude in Black ImageImage

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