Sable Lawson is a respected signwriter and representative of the Signwriters Guild in Lancetide. Sable wears paint spattered brown dungarees and is a terrible gossip, spending much of his time on a step ladder over shops listening to local goings on or having tea with the coachmen at the Sundown headquarters, hearing about comings and goings on the road. He holds the contract for maintenance of the Sundown Trading Company carriages.
In 549UN (4147) Sable brokered the storage of the cart of Reignhart The Tall and the long term stabling of his shire horse Rosalind (Rosy for short). He originally arranged for Katherine Buckler's employment as a signwriter for Sundown touching up the paintwork on the North Coast Route carriages, which led to her taking a job as a carriage guard.