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Showing posts with label Handpainted sign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handpainted sign. Show all posts
Old Folk Art Hand Painted Wooden Signs Antique Collection Jim Linderman
A Pair of early 20th C. (circa 1920) painted by hand folk art signs advertising F. E. Slater's store. The signs were preserved by being used as shelves in a cupboard for nearly 100 years. Four pieces, total size of the two signs is 42" x 24". They were likely topped with "distance indicators" before being placed near the road.
Western Michigan origin. Collection Jim Linderman
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Antique Folk Art FREE AIR Sign circa 1930? Petroliana and gasbag comments from Fox News
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An antique folk art FREE AIR sign, original paint, 30 inches long. Inflating your tires correctly, it is generally agreed, can same some 3% of the gasoline used by your car, not to mention helping your automobile to run properly. Multiply that by the number of cars. Simple, right?
Not when it comes to the President of the United States, who the gas bags of wind at Fox News have told lies about ever since he took office. Why? Big Petroleum, Big Business and Big Deceit. Above clip from Fox News website 2008.
Antique Sign collection Jim Linderman
Harmonia Baptist Church (Mechanic on Duty)
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