book

Ghost Signs: Brick Wall Signs in America by W.M. Stage

Ghost Signs: Brick Wall Signs in America by Wm. Stage.  Published by ST Publications, Cincinnati, OH; 1989.

Softbound; Color and B&W illustrations; 109 pages

 

 

Porcelain Enamel Neon Sign

Art deco porcelain enamel neon has cage around it so as to keep neon from being broken.  Sign has original brackets and horizontal pole with pointed tip.

rotator

Sign Rotator

Heavy-duty, belt-driven sign rotator.

illuminated

Budweiser Little Kings Ale Neon Skeleton Sign

Three-color neon skeleton sign for Little Kings Ale

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Dorsel’s Flour Painted Smalts Wooden Sign

Painted and smalts wood sign has handcarved and gilded borders and corners as well as main copy reading, “Seal of Kentucky.”  Painted pictorial depicts Dorsel’s Flour bag.

Sam Geller Toolbox

Metal tackle-box like kit with the addition of two metal boxes bolted to inside top of kit. Each box is hinged and held in place by a metal tab, which when depressed, allows the box to swing down on its hinges, thus allowing the lid to open. Inside the box are a variety of tools including goggles, plug-in soldering iron, various fittings for torches and burners, screwdriver, etc.

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Miller High Life Screen-Printed Metal Bulletin

Screen-printed bulletin is composed of four individual rectangular metal sections with return on edge.  Had orignally been mounted on wood stringers.

Script and Manuscript Lettering by Higgins Ink Co., Inc. (1944)

Script and Manuscript Lettering by Higgins Ink Co., Inc.  Published in Brooklyn, NY; 1944 (fourth printing).

Softbound with separate cover; B&W illustrations and halftones; 36 pages

Illustrated how-to handbook with a selection of alphabets.

 

illuminated

Nu-Enamel Reverse Print Neon Point-of-Purchase Display

Reverse painted and foil point-of-purchase sign has neon reading, “Nu-Enamel.”  Multi-colored glass panel is internally illuminated.  Cabinet has bullnose ends and stanles steel bands. Sign was acquired with original crate (new-old-stock).

non-illuminated

Forty Hours Adoration Goldleaf Glass Sign

Copper-framed reverse goldleaf and paint glass sign is mounted in sheetmetal and internally illuminated with an incandescent lightbulb.