This aluminum reflective sign is designed to be affixed above a license plat.

It promotes by hometown of Easton, Maryland, by saying,

Talbott County, where I was born, has more miles of waterfront that any county in the country. Must have been (maybe still is) a smuggler’s paradise.

As with many items found in the basement, I can’t tell yo how old it is, but it is certainly older than when the Post Office stopped using periods after two letter abbreviations for states.