Enamelled sign "Please close the doors gently..."

This enameled sheet metal sign was designed for public buildings, businesses, administrative offices, schools, hospitals, hotels, and industrial facilities. Its message reminds users to close doors carefully to reduce drafts, noise, and heat loss. The condensed black typography combined with a simple blue line is characteristic of French productions distributed during the interwar period and up to the 1950s. The signs of wear around the mounting holes indicate long-term on-site use.

✦ Provenance: France
✦ Estimated period: Circa 1930-1950
✦ Dimensions: approx. 15 x 10 cm
✦ Material: Enameled sheet metal
✦ Condition: Significant wear with enamel chips and oxidation around the four mounting holes, visible scratches and missing parts, inscription remains perfectly legible.

Highly representative of 20th-century French functional signage, this plaque will naturally find its place in an industrial interior, an old shop, or a collection dedicated to administrative enamel plaques.