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Place of Origin: North American
Porcelain Handicapped Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage porcelain handicapped sign. Great colors. Newly framed and floating in a shadow box. Great vintage condition.
Category

1950s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Porcelain

Hand Painted Keep Off Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage wooden Keep Off sign. Hand painted with red background and white lettering on thin wood board. Great colors and graphics. Great vintage condition. Coo...
Category

1950s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Vintage Trailer Highway Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Whimsical vintage highway sign from Texas. Blue sign with with graphics of a trailer. Good vintage condition.
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Grammy Museum Los Angeles Freeway Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Super cool Los Angeles freeway sign. 10.5 feet long and 3 feet tall. Metal sign, likely from 10 Freeway. Sign depicts the exit ramp for the GRAMMY MUSEUM,...
Category

Early 2000s North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Boulder Colorado Hand Painted Wood Road Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rustic hand painted Boulder road sign in black and white. Painted on a 3/4" thick plank of wood give this piece interesting character. Taken down from a nearby trail. Sign can...
Category

2010s North American Signs

Materials

Wood, Paint

Vintage Gas Station Ahead Highway Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage highway gas station sign from Texas. Blue sign with white graphics. Great coloring. Good condition.
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Double Sided Painted Wood Doll Furniture Sign
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Midcentury, Folk Art, double sided, painted wood "Doll Furniture" sign with jagged edges.
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Vintage Yellow Los Angeles Pedestrian Crossing Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Massive yellow pedestrian crossing sign from Los Angeles. Pedestrian in a crosswalk. Great coloring. Measures: 41" wide.
Category

1990s North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Antique Folk Art Reverse Painted and Foil Exhibition Sign in Gilt Frame
Located in Nantucket, MA
Folk Art exhibition sign, reverse painted glass with reserved text backed in gold and silver crinkled foil reading "Exhibition / of / Paintings / on / Glass / By Edgar F. Curtis" E...
Category

Early 20th Century Folk Art North American Signs

Materials

Foil

American Folk Art Carved Marble Oval Building Marker, Dated 1813
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A haunting and unusual American carved marble building marker, probable New England origin circa 1813. The names inscribed are H. Missemer & S. Missemer. It...
Category

1810s Antique North American Signs

Materials

Marble, Wrought Iron

Enter Here Vintage Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage metal street sign illustrating 'Enter Here.' Sign is affixed to a pipe with reflective tape on the front. Meant to be driven into th...
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Wooden Boot Folk Art Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique wooden boot sculpture. Various woods/patinas give the boot texture, color and depth. Just under 2 feet wide. Additional details include, four eyelets with laces, a thick leath...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Original Fire Blanket and Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique piece of fire/safey history. Metal Fire Blanket sign/holder. Measure: 5.5 feet tall. Made by Mine Safety Appliances Co. Pittsburgh PA. Original fire blanket seemingly unused i...
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Vintage Pair of Hand Carved Wood Silhouette Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Whimsical pair of wood silhouettes in the shape of a man and woman. Both life-sized. Both wearing cowboy hats. Great for a bar or placed outside against a wa...
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Orange BRIDGE OUT Metal Highway Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Super cool vintage metal 'BRIDGE OUT' sign from the East Coast. Measures: 4 feet wide. Orange sign with black lettering. Bullet holes and road rash to sign.
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Metal

Rare 1880s Handmade Copper/Bronze Sign, Plaque "J.W.Williams Drop Forgings"
By E. N. Little Sons 1
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare 1880s handmade copper/bronze sign plaque "J.W.WILLIAMS DROP FORGINGS." Monumental sign/plaque salvaged from the turn of the century J W WILLIAMS factory in Brooklyn New York, ex...
Category

1880s Industrial Antique North American Signs

Materials

Bronze, Copper

Humboldt California Freeway Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Humboldt County Line freeway sign from Northern California. Made in 1965. Great piece of Marijuana history as well as transportation Americana. 7 feet wid...
Category

1960s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Life-Sized 1950s Metal School Girl Speed Limit Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning metal sign of a school girl letting you know the speed limit in the school zone. 48" tall. Double sided. Great coloring, with grey, light blues an...
Category

1950s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Vintage Prison Road Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage metal road sign for a United States Prison. Sign is letting the car know that they are now "LEAVING the TRAVEL RESTRICTED AREA." Interesting piece of automotive memorabilia...
Category

1950s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Large Big Bear Lake California Highway Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very cool vintage California freeway sign showing the way to Big Bear Lake. Iconic location in California, cool piece of history. Great coloring and worn condition. Fantastic piece of California ephemera...
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Vintage "We Love Our Children" Street Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fun vintage street sign that reads "Please Drive Slowly. We Love (Heart) Our Children". Black lettering and trim on a reflective silver background. Fun details like a red heart to re...
Category

1980s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Metal

Elkwood, Late 19th Century American Trade Sign
Located in Nantucket, MA
With carved gilt wood letters with mounted against a blue painted sand ground American, c. 1890.
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Vintage Reflective Truck Road Sign
Located in Burton, TX
This Vintage Reflective Road Sign depicts a black truck with a yellow background. Once used as a street sign to inform motorist of trucks entering and exiting the highway, this sign ...
Category

Late 20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Metal

Acid Yellow Reflective Pedestrian Road Sign from Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great acid yellow reflective road sign from the City of Los Angeles. Depicting a man and woman crossing the road. Good vintage condition.  
Category

1990s North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Ten Supertest Gas Station Motor Oil Coin Banks
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Ten supertest gas station motor oil coin banks Tags: Advertising Porcelain Signs, Gas and Oil Memorabilia.
Category

20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Tin

Antique Wrought Iron Welder s Trade Sign
Located in Montreal, QC
This large double side Welder's Mask Sign hung outside a iron mongers work shop boldly visible for the coming and going. Supported by heavy chains the mask sign was eerie and a bit sinister and not for the faint hearted. The banging and trunking of metal being forged into their desired shapes, along with sparks flying through the soot filled air. You only dared to enter if you were ready to conduct business in the creation of your project. Antique trade signs...
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique North American Signs

Materials

Iron

Oversized Gilded Mortar and Pestle from Pennsylvania
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century gilded pharmacy sign of large dimensions from Pennsylvania made of gold painted zinc and representing pestle and mortar, circa 1850s-1880s.
Category

19th Century Antique North American Signs

Materials

Gold, Zinc

American Folk Art Tool Museum Sign 1950 Tool Assemblage
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Wentworth Tool Museum sign assembled with scrap tools and hardware. Assemblage include many wrenches, drill bits, saws and scissors. Heavy iron constructio...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Signs

Materials

Iron

Antique NOS Reed Vise Tin on Cardboard Sign
Located in Dekalb, IL
c. 1920s; mfd. by The H. D. Beach Co. (Coshocton, OH) for Reed Manufacturing Co. - Erie, PA Antique new-old-stock tin-over-cardboard (TOC) advertising sign. This piece advertises R...
Category

Early 20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Tin

Anonymous Abstract X Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boards. Very dynamic when hung in collections. This door appears to have been painted on an old cupboard...
Category

1950s Folk Art Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Anonymous Abstract Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boar...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Oversized Bonze Advertising Store Display Scissors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Midcentury, oversized, advertising, store display, bronze scissors open and close as real scissors. Makes a great, rustic, folk art piece or wall art.
Category

Mid-20th Century Industrial North American Signs

Materials

Bronze

Antique Architectural Bank Building Bronze "No" Letters
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Fantastic cast bronze vintage letters. Great way to get your point across! Salvaged from a bank building in the midwest. Great patinated bronze surface. ...
Category

Early 20th Century Folk Art North American Signs

Materials

Bronze

Iron Perpetual Motion Folk Art Texas Zoo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This black and white painted iron perpetual motion object was said to have been used to market the zebra exhibition at the San Antonio Zoo. The zebras...
Category

1950s Folk Art Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Iron

Pre-Prohibition Fortune s Buffet ROG Mirror Sign
Located in Dekalb, IL
Antique reverse-painted storefront sign. This piece was for a shop that specialized in alcoholic and tobacco goods. Features a red field with gold-tone painted serif lettering. Whil...
Category

Early 20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Brass

Early 20th Century Butchers Products Co. Painted Tin Sign
Located in Dekalb, IL
1910s-20s; Fulton Meat Market district - Chicago, IL The property at the northeast corner of Peoria and Fulton streets in Chicago was most recently a burger joint, but in the late 1...
Category

Early 20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Tin

Blue and Red Enamel Barbers Pole Shop Sign
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Rare porcelain enamel barbers pole shop sign. This is a very rare old sign, it is American in origin, we have the red and blue stripes wrapped around a White background, and at th...
Category

1920s Industrial Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Enamel

Pair of Vintage Letters P and A
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
Vintage iron letters "P" and "A" mounted on a metal bases. Likely tin and part of a vintage sign, they offer a fun industrial vibe. Wear is consistent with age and use. See photos f...
Category

Early 20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Iron, Tin

Vintage Motor Rythm Tin Litho Advertising Sign
Located in Dekalb, IL
c. 1940s; R. M. Hollingshead Corp. - Camden, NJ Vintage tune-up fluid advertising sign. This piece advertises Whiz's "Motor Rythm", a now-defunct line of tune-up fluids. The sign m...
Category

Mid-20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Tin

1950s Hand-Painted Olympia Beer Advertising Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
Oversized 1950s hand-painted advertising sign for Olympia Beer.
Category

1950s Folk Art Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Adopt a Highway California Road Sign, 2000s USA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very cool California "Adopt a Freeway" freeway sign with a bright orange sun at the top and a road lined with trees in the foreground. The metal sign is cut out to the shape of the image on the sign. A star watermark is visible on the image of this sign. Great coloring and condition. Fantastic piece of California and transportation ephemera. Stamped 'Property State of California...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Blickensderfer Typewriter Tin Sign "A Gift from the 19th to the 20th Century"
Located in Stamford, CT
A Wonderful Blickensderfer Typewriter Advertising Sign " A GIFT from the 19th to the 20th CENTURY " ( circa 1899 ) simply an amazing sign. Th...
Category

Late 19th Century Antique North American Signs

Materials

Tin

Vintage "We Love Our Children" Street Sign, 1980s USA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fun vintage street sign that reads "Please Drive Slowly. We Love (Heart) Our Children". Black lettering and trim on a reflective silver background...
Category

1980s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Metal

Vintage Yellow Handicap Stencil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique vintage handicap stencil used to mark the handicap spots on the asphalt. Made of plywood. This sign has tons of character with thick, excess paint and splatter around the imag...
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Wood, Paint

Los Angeles Unified School District Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Los Angeles elementary school sign. Hand-painted on a fiberglass board. 6 feet wide. Sign states 'Los Angeles Unified School District Administrative Offices' 1208 Magnolia Avenue. Building and address are still used for the school. Fun piece of Los Angeles history...
Category

1980s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Wood, Fiberglass, Paint

Massive Acid Yellow Reflective Pedestrian Road Sign from Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Massive acid yellow reflective road sign from the City of Los Angeles. Depicting a man and woman crossing the road. Good vintage condition.  
Category

1990s North American Signs

Materials

Steel

National State Park No Swimming Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage sign from a national state park. Brown sign of a swimmer with a red slash. Great colors. Great pool house or beach house art.
Category

1970s Vintage North American Signs

Materials

Steel

Antique Gold Leaf Black Sign "Gebhardt Park "
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique gold leaf sign Gebhardt Park. Framed in original wood frame.
Category

Early 1900s Folk Art Antique North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Lighted Wooden Taxi Arrow Sign
Located in Seattle, WA
Wonderful double sided taxi sign-believed to be from the Victory taxi company. Lighted on both sides, can stand on table or hang- great color, great size.
Category

20th Century North American Signs

Materials

Wood

Early 20th Century American Gray Cast Iron Eagle
Located in Chicago, IL
Early 20th century American cast iron eagle. It came from Pittsburgh.
Category

Early 20th Century Industrial North American Signs

Materials

Iron

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