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Gage Hats Etched Glass Rotating Sign

Etched and mirrored glass-faced, illuminated sign changes color via cellophane-like rotating three-colored roll.  Each of the three colors carries a different message.

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Lomack Electronics Painted Wooden Sign

Double-faced painted wood sign is irregular in shape and consists of three panels: two outside panels are 1/2 inch smaller than middle panel so as to create a chair rail-like frame on top and side.  A wooden cut-out arrow hangs below.

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Hi-Way Signs Inc. Painted Wooden Sign

Handlettered, wooden sign tag for “Hi-Way Signs Inc. – Painesville, OH.”

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Philco Internally Illuminated Plastic Sign

Double-faced, internally illuminated vacuum-formed plastic sign.  Lighting and wiring were retrofitted with non-sign fluorescent components before acquisition.

RCA Victor Internally Illuminated Plastic Sign

Double-faced, illuminated plastic sign has pan face and aluminum extrusion cabinet.

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Howard Johnson’s Carved Wood Display Sign

Carved wood sign.

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Howard Johnson’s Fiberglass Display Sign

Hollow fiberglass sign would have been installed in front of the restaurant, bolted to a concrete slab or possibly on a brick planter.

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Neon Signs: Manufacture, Installation, Maintenance by Samuel C. Miller & Donald G. Fink

Neon Signs: Manufacture, Installation, Maintenance by Samuel C. Miller and Donald G. Fink.  Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York and London; 1935 (1st edition, 12th impression).

Hardbound; B&W illustrations; 288 pages

(2000.0009.0017, 2001.0081.0004 and 2001.0081.0005 are other first editions of this text; 2001.0016 is a later edition of this text; 2001.0031.0001 and 2000.0009.0116 are Lindsay Publications reprints)

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Laymon’s Aspirin Internally Illuminated Plastic Clock Sign

Plastic-face, screen-printed, internally illuminated clock is mounted on metal frame slightly larger than plastic face.  Clock is in original box, new-old-stock.

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Signpainter 3D Model

Three-dimensional model of a signpainter painting a billboard for “Sauers & Parker Ltd. – Purveyors of Traditional Gift and Games.”  Primarily constructed of wood and painted.  Poster is six individual sheets.  Small brass plaque mounted below center reads, “Sculpture by Michael Garman.”