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Schweppes Table Waters Oak Trade Sign Board
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Schweppes table waters oak trade sign board This charming Oak Trade Sign would have been hung
Category

Mid-20th Century Arts and Crafts Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Oak

Wooden Trade Sign Advertising Model of Kissel Gold Bug Speedster
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Wooden Trade Sign Advertising Model of Kissel Gold Bug Speedster A Car made famous by Amelia
Category

1950s Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Plywood

Double Sided Gilt & Painted "HAPPY JACK'S" Tobacconist Trade Sign, Laconia, NH
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Two-sided tobacconist trade sign of circular form with gold leaf lettering with red shadow on a
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Late 20th Century American Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Gold Leaf

Unusual Set of German Mid-20th Century Shop Trade Sign Tools
Located in London, GB
Unusual set of German mid-20th century shop trade sign tools Every now and again we are lucky
Category

1950s German Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Metal, Brass

Oversized Metal Key Trade Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Massive metal bit-key trade sign from the UK. Marked BOLTON, 1925. Great patina to metal. Well made
Category

1970s British Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Metal

Retro Oversized Metal Key Trade Sign
Oversized Metal Key Trade Sign
H 5 in W 20.25 in D 0.5 in
Telephone Company's Trade Sign USA 1950
Located in Milan, IT
A window trade sign of an American telephone company, depicting a big phone. Carved out of fruit
Category

1950s American Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Plastic, Wood

Pair of 1960s Screen Printed Trade Signs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A pair of charming screen-printed trade signs in the style of hand-painted grocery store
Category

Mid-20th Century Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Paper

Vintage School Crossing Safety Guard Folk Art Trade Sign
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Original hand painted school safety crossing guard sign. Sheet metal and wood. Great original
Category

1950s American Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Sheet Metal

Barber Shop Trade Sign, Giant Comb and Scissors Larger than life
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Barber Shop Trade Sign, Giant Comb and Scissors Larger than life and very noticeable “Barber Shop
Category

1960s Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Steel

Very Rare Diselpunk Trade Sign from 1978, Adriano Goldschmied Renzo Rosso
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Very rare Diselpunk trade sign from 1978, Adriano Goldschmied Renzo Rosso This is the best of
Category

Late 20th Century Steampunk Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Clay

Mid-20th Century Painted Metal Fishing Store Trade Sign
Located in London, GB
Mid-20th Century Painted Metal Fishing Store Trade Sign A large example of a mid-20th Century
Category

1950s British Mid-Century Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Metal

1960s Coca-Cola Trade Sign 'Drugs & Soda' From WPB, Florida Clematis Street
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
1960s Coca-Cola Trade Sign: 'Drugs & Soda'  Salvaged from a pharmacy on Clematis Street, West Palm
Category

1960s American Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Metal

Trade sign for a wine shop: three bottles with french label wine, France 1950.
Located in Milan, IT
A trade sign for the window of a wine shop, depicting three bottles with the label of French wines
Category

1950s French Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Fruitwood, Lacquer

Large Scale, 20th Century Hand Carved French Fisherie Trade Sign Folk Art
Located in Southampton, GB
Large scal, fisherie trade sign. This hand carved Zander was hung in a local french village near
Category

1950s French Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Oak

Big Wooden Wrench, a Trade Sign, USA 1930
Located in Milan, IT
Big wooden sign of a machine shop depicting a wrench, with mechanic’s address and phone number. USA
Category

Mid-20th Century American Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Fruitwood

Vintage Large Painted 3d Industrial Builders Trade Wall Sign Plaque, C.1940
Located in London, GB
A large and unusual builders advertisement trade sign. circa 1940 Scratch built to the very
Category

Mid-20th Century English Industrial Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Aluminum

French Hand-forged Blacksmith Sign
Located in London, England
Beautifully crafted blacksmith trade sign. Hand-forged and riveted, not welded. A seriously
Category

1950s French Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Iron

French Hand-forged Blacksmith Sign
French Hand-forged Blacksmith Sign
H 32.29 in W 20.48 in D 1.97 in
Dutch Midcentury Giant Polyester Industrial Shoe Cobbler Display Store Sign
Located in Haarlem, NL
large 'shoe' with multiple pretty layers of different colors of paint. This large 'one of' shoe trade
Category

Mid-20th Century Dutch Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Polyester

Folk Art Giant Metal Scissors Industrial Store Display Sign
Located in Atlanta, GA
the sign was originally used as a trade sign for a tailor shop or a millinery store. The sign is made
Category

Mid-20th Century French Folk Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Metal, Chrome

Very Rare Double Sided Glass Raleigh Bike Advertising Shop Sign
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
purposes of display The sign shows the R & Co. trade mark in red and yellow, both sides are the same
Category

Mid-20th Century Sporting Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Mirror

Brass Blue Riband Lounge Sign
Located in Norwell, MA
Brass with enamel filled letters trade sign with blue riband restaurant and terrace bar, state room
Category

1960s Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Brass

Brass Blue Riband Lounge Sign
Brass Blue Riband Lounge Sign
H 24 in W 28 in D 1 in
Steven Neill Hawaiiana Vintage look wood sign.
Located in San Francisco, CA
has been creating these one of a kind trade signs in Hawaii since the mid 1990s. His works are highly
Category

1990s Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Wood

Hand Painted & Crafted Cow From a Dairy Farm
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fun and folky cow was found on a dairy farm probably used as a advertising prop. or trade
Category

Late 20th Century American Adirondack Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Metal

Six Foot Carved Fish from England
Located in Norwell, MA
, eyes, etc. Great finish in the style of the trade signs that the fishmongers would hang over their
Category

1950s European Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Wood

Six Foot Carved Fish from England
Six Foot Carved Fish from England
H 32 in W 73 in D 6 in
World Trade Center
By Wolff Buchholz
Located in Kansas City, MO
Wolff Buchholz Title: New York - World Trade Center Medium: Photograph Year: 1990 Signed, dated and
Category

1990s Contemporary Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Silver Gelatin

By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman 1st Trade Ed Signed by Foreman
Located in valatie, NY
, U.S.A., 1995. Signed, Stated 1st Trade Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Foreman tells the incredible story
Category

1990s American Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Paper

The Turtle Street Trading Co.
By Ed Tadiello
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1990 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Center 1990
Category

1990s Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Twin Towers , World Trade Center Abstract
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The image is signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, Other sizes
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Photographic Paper

World Trade Center, Twin Towers Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, Dated, Numbered 3/15 recto, unframed, printed later, other size available
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Photographic Paper

World Trade Center, Twin Towers, Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered 4/15 recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available Printed on
Category

1970s Contemporary Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The World Trade Centers in its most captured in it's most simplified form. The buildings are
Category

1970s Contemporary Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Inkjet, Photographic Paper

Washington Square with Trade Center Towers II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Wolf von dem Bussche American (born Germany) 1934-2014 Title: Washington Square with Trade
Category

1970s Impressionist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Chinese Trade Porcelain, First Edition by Michel Beurdeley
By Michel Beurdeley
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Trade Porcelain, First edition by Michel Beurdeley. Charles E. Turtle Company, Rutland
Category

1960s American Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Paper

Chinese Trade Porcelain, First Edition by Michel Beurdeley
By Michel Beurdeley
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Trade Porcelain, 1st Ed by Michel Beurdeley. Charles E. Turtle Company, Rutland, Vermont
Category

1960s American Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Paper

Twin Towers, World Trade Center with Green Filter
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. The image is signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered
Category

1970s Abstract Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Photographic Paper

Photo of New York City World Trade Centers, 1979
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Downtown Manhattan. Artist proof 2/2 and signed by photographer Julio Rodrigues. Framed it measures 36.5
Category

1970s American Post-Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Paper

Daniel Hauben Painting NYC Skyline Empire State Bldg. Trade Center
By Daniel Hauben 1
Located in Wilton, CT
Building." Signed and dated 1990 in lower right corner. 30" high, 36" wide.
Category

1990s American Modern Retro Trade Signs

Twin Towers, World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan Bathed in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
back to 1969. Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed. This
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Fishing at Dawn Old Trading Port with Many Figures Large Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishing at Dawn English artist after an earlier work (see inscription verso) signed oil painting on
Category

Late 20th Century Old Masters Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Oil, Canvas

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, First Trade Edition, in Original DJ, 1952
By John Steinbeck
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Octavo. First trade edition, first
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Leather, Paper

The 21st Floor-A View of the World Trade Center in the Skyline
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The 21st Floor-A View of the World Trade Center in the Skyline Screen print, c. 1990 Signed: Joni
Category

1990s American Realist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Screen

American Contemporary Photo by M.K.Y. - Lamppost at the Old World Trade Center
Located in Paris, IDF
lower right, and hand signed in ink on front, lower right. Each image is surrounded by a minimum 1
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Digital

Ruckus Manhattan (Hand signed)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Ruckus Manhattan (Hand signed), 1981 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Red Grooms
Category

1980s Pop Art Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Offset

"Conversaciones Alternadas (Alternated Conversations), ", Signed
By Teresa Olabuenaga
Located in Milwaukee, WI
paper by Teresa Olabuenaga. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts a number of
Category

1990s Surrealist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Mixed Media

Art Deco Sculpture Signed Carlier
By Émile Nestor Joseph Carlier 1
Located in NANTES, FR
the ornamental sculptor from Cambrai Lecaron, where he learned the trade by sculpting the stones of
Category

Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Marble, Spelter

Art Deco Sculpture Signed Carlier
Art Deco Sculpture Signed Carlier
H 27.96 in W 6.11 in D 4.14 in
Bjork - Signed Limited Edition Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
(1997) Cover shoot for VOX Magazine (photo Kevin Westenberg) Unframed Signed and numbered by the
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Herzogin Cecilie, signed oil painting
By Louis Letouche
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
ships of the time remained competitive against the steamers only on the longer trade routes: the Chilean
Category

1990s Realist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Oil

Luis Loyola Studio Hand Turned Bowl Signed
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Stylized hand turned studio wood bowl by Peruvian expert wood turner Luis Loyola. Signed on the
Category

1990s Peruvian Mid-Century Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Wood

Underworld - Signed Limited Edition Print (1993)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Underworld - Signed Limited Edition Print December 15 1993 London Melody Maker (photo Kevin
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Brett Anderson - Signed Limited Edition Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Brett Anderson -Signed Limited Edition Print Brett Anderson, frontman of Suede, smokes in his
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Bjork - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Bjork - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print Icelandic singer Bjork in London, 1993, following
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Regina Maris Ship, signed oil painting
By Louis Letouche
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
: Regina Maris. Regina was built to ply the Iceland-to-Baltic Sea codfish trade. The original wooden hull
Category

1990s Realist Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Oil

Spiritualized - Signed Limited Edition Oversize Print (1994)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Spiritualized - Signed Limited Edition Oversize Print Pure Phase Press Shoot November 22 1994
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Rolling Stones - signed Limited Edition print (1998)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Rolling Stones - signed Limited Edition print Album Cover Shoot August 25 1998 Berlin
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Soundgarden - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (1996)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Soundgarden - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print Personal Work May 16 1996 New York
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

The Prodigy - signed Limited Edition Print (1997)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
The Prodigy - signed Limited Edition Print Collage Boston June 2 1997 NME Cover Shoot (photo
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Def Leppard - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Def Leppard - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print Joe Elliot, lead singer of British rock band
Category

1980s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Depeche Mode - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Depeche Mode - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print Depeche Mode (from left: Andy Fletcher
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Eddie Vedder - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Eddie Vedder - Signed Limited Edition Print. Eddie Veder, lead singer of American band Pearl Jam
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Massive Attack - signed Limited Edition print (1998)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Massive Attack - signed Limited Edition print Mojo Cover Shoot May 14 1998 Berlin, Germany
Category

1990s Modern Retro Trade Signs

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

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Retro Trade Signs For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a range of retro trade signs for sale on 1stDibs. Each of these unique retro trade signs was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and paper. There are all kinds of retro trade signs available, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Retro trade signs bearing Folk Art or Art Deco hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs.

How Much are Retro Trade Signs?

Prices for retro trade signs start at $125 and top out at $7,036 with the average selling for $1,498.