Shillitos Sign Sketch
2013.0012.0002
AcrylicPaper
These sign sketches were created by "Clement" Booth Yonka (deceased) while serving as a designer at the former Lackner Custom Signs -- Service Co., Cincinnati, OH. "Booth" as he was known was recruited by George Lackner in 1946 following World War II. He had been a foreman in a munitions factory in Macon, GA., during the war, moonlighting part-time as a neon tubebender. Yonka had originally begun working with glass, creating "barn animals" out of Pyrex on the carnival circuit.
Permanent Collection
Sign Artwork or SketchesAirbrushed/Hand-rendered
Lackner Sign Company
circa Feb 22, 1949
1940 - 1949
Made by "Clement" Booth Yonka
Makers Mark
Bottom Left
Prepared by; The Lackner Company, Inc; Electrical Advertising; Cincinnati, Ohio; No.; Date Feb. 22, 1949; Scale 1/2" = 1' - 0"; This is an Original Drawing and Is Not To Be Copied As A Whole or Any Part Thereof.
Label
Inscription
Left Center
Sign, 63' high 8'-6" projection; 48" All Lucite Letters, faces; and return. ; Stainless Steel brackets and; serpentine recessed channel; with 18mm Yellow Gold; tubing therein.
Pencil
23-1/4 in
1 in
35-3/8 in
Frame
Storage
Very Good
