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Period: Mid-19th Century
Folk Art Hotel Dress Code Sign, circa 1950
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Folk Art Hotel Dress Code Sign, circa 1950, a whimsical hand painted sign from a posh resort in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This great little sign was collected bac...
Category
American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
Impressive Huge 19th Century Pawnbroker Folk Art Sign with Three Spheres Symbol
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An impressive rare and monumental in scale folk art pawnbroker trade sign with its original trio of giltwood spheres which represent the universal symbol for the pawnbroker trade.
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wrought Iron
Zinc and Gold Horse Head Butchers Trade Sign Flemish 1860
Located in Hastings, GB
19th century Flemish gilt zinc horse head trade sign. This beautiful hand made sign was used by a Flemish butcher and dates to circa 1860. There are still remnants of the beautiful g...
Category
Belgian Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Zinc
19th Century Large Apothecary Chemist Carboy Pharmacy Shop Trade Sign
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A 19th century hand blown glass chemist window display carboy. Used as a symbol of the pharmacy from the 17th century to the early 20th century.
A rare example with a hollow cut ...
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Blown Glass
19th Century French Antique Metal Sheet - Wall Décor Sign
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark-brown, antique thin metal sheet from a shoe shop in Lyon. The black wall décor is in good condition. Minor fading, scratches due to age. Wear cons...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Metal
19th Century Rustic English Private Land Owners Trespassers Sign
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
19th century rustic private land owners trespassers sign
This sign is made in elm with metal lettering set in relief it says
Notice
No road
Trespassers Wil
Be prosecuted
By...
Category
Rustic Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
19th Century Trade Sign Clothing Wood Double Sided Wooden Hudson Valley NY
Located in Wallkill, NY
Take a look at this fantastic double sided early 19th or late 18th century wooden trade sign with original wrought Iron bracket. Came out of a Hudso...
Category
American Primitive Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron
19th Century French Wooden Clock Face
Located in Surrey, BC
Authentic clock face salvaged in the 1960s from a four-sided clock tower in France. Retains its original undisturbed first surface. Acquired from a private collection.
Dimensions: 3...
Category
French Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
French Large Size Mid-19th Century Zinc Clock Trade Sign on Custom Stand
Located in Atlanta, GA
This French large size clock trade sign from the mid-19th century depicts an oversized pocket watch with round bow at the top. Made of zinc, this grey...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron, Zinc
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Located in London, GB
An Edwardian Folk Art sign with overscale finger, insribed ‘Left Luggage’.
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French, 19th Century Iron Shoemakers Shop Sign
Located in Buisson, FR
Original riveted sheet iron shoemakers shop sign. Unique find,
France, circa 1800-1850. Traces of red paint visible.
Weathered.
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Antique Sign for Bicycles Delta, Belgium, 1934
Located in Antwerp, BE
Large Art Deco tin advertising sign for bicycles of the Belgian Brand Delta.
This Belgian tin sign is dated 1934.
It's a lithographic tin store sign - agency display sign - billboard - wall sign - old advertising sign
for bikes - bicycles - cycles - wheels of the brand Velos Delta.
A black with green and gold sign made from pressed tin - pressed metal with relief.
Awesome wall decoration even if you have nothing to do with old or antique bikes...
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Belgian Art Deco Mid-19th Century Signs
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Metal
Early 20th Century Double Sided French Pharmacy Metal Sign
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Double Sided French Pharmacy Metal Sign
A rare double sided pharmacy trade sign, origins of France, dated to the early part of the 20th century, made from metal ...
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Early Victorian Vintage Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Metal
Antique Vintage Reverse Painted Glass Chemist Pharmacy Sign, C.1930
Located in London, GB
An elegant reverse painted glass chemist's sign. c.1930
Gilt lettering and green carboy, reverse painted on clear thick plate glass. Set into a simple ebonised wooden frame.
Category
English Art Deco Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Glass, Wood
Early 20th Century French Butcher's Shop Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
A playful early 20th century French painted steel butcher's shop sign in the shape of a pig, and mounted on a custom steel table-top mount. The sign...
Category
French Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Steel
Wood Carved Red and White American Folk Art Barber Pole Trade Sign Sconce, C1920
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Great Americana! c. 1920s American Folk Art wood and iron carved barber pole. Layers of thick original red and white hand painted surface. Substantial iron mounts and iron strapping around neck of sconce. Unique wall sconce...
Category
North American Folk Art Vintage Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron
H 50 in W 7 in D 11 in
Cigars Store / Trade Folk Art Wooden Carved Sign. c 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
American Folk art wooden "CIGARS" sign from the 1920's.
Great old Store Trade sign. Wood cut to cigar shape. Lettered in Gold Paint.
In good conditions, it was a in doors sign. Perfect for any cigar smoker.
Cigars History:
A cigar is basically dried tobacco leaves that are rolled and wrapped by other tobacco leaves in order to give you a full tobacco smoking experience.
Cigars are becoming more popular all around the world recently because they are exposed to a pop culture where a lot of famous people like Michael Jordan and Arnold Schwarzenegger smoke them.
In order to understand why cigars have become very well-known, we need to take a good look at their history and where they came from. That way, we can truly understand this pop phenomenon. Here is a brief history of cigars.
Origin of Cigars
The exact origin of cigars is not entirely known but historians believe that cigars were first invented by the ancient Mayans.
The ancient Mayans would collect tobacco leaves and wrap them up in a plantain leave in order to smoke it. An ancient Mayan pot...
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American Folk Art Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
Folk Art Giant Metal Scissors Industrial Store Display Sign
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an industrial metal store display sign that showcases French Folk Art. The sign boasts gigantic scissors, which can be used as an advertisement for a barber or hair salon. It is possible that the sign was originally used as a trade sign for a tailor shop or a millinery store. The sign is made of chromed metal and has the same maneuverability as real scissors. Despite being an outdoor sign...
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French Folk Art Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Circa 1890 Hardware Store Wood Trade Sign Carved Smaltz Black and Gold Paint
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Exceptional late 19th century hand carved letters with black and Gold paint and black smaltz background. Excellent typography. Great wall art. Simple and bold.
Category
American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
H 17.25 in W 64 in D 3.5 in
1950 Vintage American Folk Art Band Stand Hand Painted Goofy Jazz Music Stand
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand painted band stand folding music stand, circa 1950s. Great folk art design and Goofy dog painted. Possibly from the Jazz Mill in Phoenix. Great wall han...
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American Folk Art Vintage Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Composition, Metal
H 30.5 in W 24 in D 4 in
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Beautiful wrought iron locksmith's sign, France, first half of the XIXth century
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful wrought-iron locksmith's sign, hand-crafted in France on the first part of the 19th century. It's entirely double-sided, in finely worked wrought iron. The part under the k...
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron, Wrought Iron
H 53.94 in W 29.93 in D 1.97 in
19th Century Oddfellows Freemasons Walshingham Norfolk Lodge Door Pelmet Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A hand painted pine door pelmet from the "Loyal Walsingham Lodge"
The lodge was a branch from the Manchester unity, an Independent Order of the Oddfellow...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Pine
H 13 in W 54.73 in D 3.55 in
19th Century Dentist Trade Sign
Located in London, GB
19th Century Dentist Trade Sign
We share what we love, and we love this rare English antique hand painted wooden dentist trade sign, with chain & hanging hook. Dated to the early 19th Century this is clearly not the sort of trade sign that was fixed outside a shop, before the Industrial Revolution & the development of towns in the Victorian era, the majority of dentists were travelling practitioners who lived on the road & pitched a booth at regional country fairs, they lived by reputation, sufferers would wait weeks or months to have a tooth pulled...
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Unknown Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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Metal
Black & White Barber Pole with Acorn Finials, ca 1840-1860
Located in York County, PA
This delicate, New England barber pole has a round, double-tapered shaft with a swelled vase turning above and below, capped at each end with a elongated acorn finial. The center of the pole is painted black and white in the typical, swirling helix, with the remainder in gold.
Trade signs for barbering have existed since the middle ages. Many barbers doubled as surgeons and performed blood letting. Some prepared the deceased for viewings, as well as the living. Although black and white poles are rumored to be mortician’s poles among the collector community, very little information is available to substantiate that claim. I have never seen an image of a mortuary with such a pole, and little to no research exists to tie the black and white versions to barbers who offered the service. The red and white, present on most European poles, is said to reflect blood and bandages. In America, the colors are more often red, white, and blue, especially in later examples. This is rumored to represent veins and arteries, but more likely the blue fell into the color scheme as a nod to American patriotism.
Poles varied greatly, and it is unclear if a barber who offered a mix of services typically displayed more than one pole to do it. Although pairs of matching poles in two different colors are known to exist—for example, one with a red & white helix, and one black & white—these are far from the norm. With such a tiny population in any given town, and resources being what they were, it seems likely that in most cases a barber displayed only one. Because modern barber poles are sometimes black and white, though no services past shaves and hair cutting...
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American Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
Large 19th Century English Folk Art Pawnbroker Trade Sign Balls
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An extra large trio of oil gilt iron pawnbroker spheres, with their original hand forged hanging hoops.
Previously these would off been part of a larger sign, hanging from an iron b...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron
19th Century Apothecary Chemist Carboy, Bratley Pharmacy Pontefract Shop Sign
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A 19th century hand blown glass chemist counter display carboy. Used as a symbol of the pharmacy from the 17th century to the early 20th century,
Prov...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Blown Glass
French 19th Century Corkscrew
Located in Atlanta, GA
French mid-19th century grand scale corkscrew shop sign from a vineyard in Provence. A perfect decoration for a kitchen or wine room.
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron
19th Century T.J. Potts Original Painted Trade Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century original painted rare form trade sign from a Folk Art collection in fantastic condition. This is all original iron hooks and paint.
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American Adirondack Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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Wood
Large "Interior Design" Signs Set
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Set of two large interior design signs Wood Letters mounted on a wood back ground.
Each sign measures 3" deep 12" high and 8 ft wide. Large bright colore...
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American Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Hardwood
Large Clams Sign
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This is a large hand painted sign from a MA seafood diner from the 1970s
Large great shape, pained wood.
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American Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Plywood
Ships Quarterboard, S.S. Costa Rica
Located in Nantucket, MA
Ship's Quarterboard from the 'S.S. COSTA Rica'. Made from a tropical hardwood, painted black and gilded letters and Victorian flourishes.
The SS COSTA Rica (1865-1875) operated fo...
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North American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Hardwood
Huge Pair of Glass Chemist Display Carboys Trade Sign Apothecary Pharmacy
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Pair of huge late Victorian chemist display carboys, on original mahogany stands.
Each vessel has been hand blown, with ground pontil mark on base. The glass stoppers are cut glas...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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Blown Glass, Cut Glass, Mahogany
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