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Children's crossing in Romania
We have now several samples from Romania and the situation doesn't look very comforting for us roadsign collecting people. All panels in good shape are drawn in the modern sketchy way. Gone are the old fashioned signs.

Let's take a look at the Sintana find.
A junior roadsign research assistant probably would classify this find with the UK-group of signs. A quick look at Great-Britain's page reveals that this can't be correct.

  • The girl is not big enough; she must be the sturdiest.
  • The UK-children never carry a bookbag
  • and they don't run. They walk.
Godines (prov. Gorj); VII.2007; pict. De Knijf & Demolder
Sintana; VII.2000;
pict. W. Van Landuyt		 Titerlesti (prov. Mehedinti); 18.VII.2007;
pict. De Knijf & Demolder		 Godines (prov. Gorj); 17.VII.2007;
pict. De Knijf & Demolder
 
It is nevertheless an interesting find because this configuration is only present in few countries like The Netherlands, Spain (Sarvisé) and Italy. The likely precursor (Titerlesti) is also mentioned from Italy.
It is obvious that this country follows the Italian way of doing because the 3rd sample could equally well come from Italy. —Weren't they allies already at some disturbing event in the 20th century?—		 The third find is similar to the modern Italian Children's Crossings and found in many countries around the Mediterranean Sea (See Malta for an explanation). But they kept a primitive feature in the horizontal stroke. This line was also present in the older designs of the real Mediterranean countries, but it wasn't preserved in the new drawing.
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