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Period: Mid-19th Century
19thc Original Blue Dated 1913 Cutting Board
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19thc Original blue painted round cutting board was signed and dated as it was given to someone in 1913 ! It is in very good condition and painted on the front and unpainted on ...
Category
American Adirondack Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Wood
19th Century Trade Sign Clothing Wood Double Sided Wooden Hudson Valley NY
Located in Newfoundland, PA
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...
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American Primitive Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
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...
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Belgian Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Zinc
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...
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Iron, Zinc
Antique 19th Century English Lanscape Oil Painting - Signed Thomas Creswick RA
Located in London, GB
A large 19th century oil on canvas landscape oil painting. c.1852
Singed by the artist to the bottom left - T Creswick RA (1811-1869), inducted into the Royal Academy as a full me...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Reliquiae Sanctorum Sign
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Remarkable original "Reliquiae Sanctorum" sign on sheet metal.
Later mounted to weathered backboards.
Italy, Circa 1850.
Category
Italian Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Sheet Metal
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
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Folk Art Sign Copper Folk Art
Located in Munich, DE
This unusual ornamental copper plate was used to write information on it, possibly the menue for a restaurant. We can see traces of writing.
The beautifull carving shows birds, leav...
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European Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
Materials
Copper
19th Century Rustic English Private Land Owners Trespassers Sign
Located in Godshill, 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
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French, 19th Century Iron Shoemakers Shop Sign
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Original riveted sheet iron shoemakers shop sign. Unique find,
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Large 19th Century 51-Inch Wooden Locksmith Key Trade Sign
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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.
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19th Century Carved Wood Panel
Located in New York, NY
19th Century carved wood panel with lotus bud motive. An Architectural Element from a Buddhist Monastery in Northen Thailand. A Lotus Bud representi...
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Vintage American Folk Art Showroom Trade Sign
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming vintage wooden trade sign for Showroom. The sign was original painted in with green and white colors and have been through a later restoration when a thick lacquer that has ...
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Wood, Paint
Framed Vintage Gilded "Gudgeon & Sons" Sign from 19th Century, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This distinguished sign reading "Gudgeon & Sons," rendered in gilded and ebonized wood, hails from the era of English auctioneers based in Winchester. The piece showcases a striking ...
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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Wood
Pair of Antique Oil Paintings 19th Century Signed Lambert
Located in Buxton, GB
This stunning pair of antique oil paintings is an incredible example of traditional French art, signed by the renowned artist Lambert. The medium-siz...
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H 22.45 in W 27.56 in D 2.37 in
1900s Butcher's Pig Trade Sign
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Vintage carved and painted pine butcher's trade sign. Molded frame, insized text reading "Porkies Pen" pig in relief. 33" x 40"
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Late 19th Century Antique English Oil Of A Golfer
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Late 19th Century Antique English Oil Of A Golfer. Beautiful painting purchased in France. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with questions.
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French Edwardian Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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19th Century Toroja Wooden Granary Panel from Sulawesi
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century Toraja wooden granary panel from Sulawesi Island in the Indonesian archipelago. This antique granary facade with window from the Toraja peoples of Sulawesi, Indonesia ...
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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...
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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
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H 53.94 in W 29.93 in D 1.97 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
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French 19th Century Corkscrew
Located in Round Top, TX
French mid-19th century grand scale corkscrew shop sign from a vineyard in Provence. A perfect decoration for a kitchen or wine room.
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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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
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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
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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.
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North American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Signs
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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.
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Hand Carved Wooden English Tobacco Shop Trade Sign Advertising Figure circa 1860
Located in London, GB
English tobacco shop advertising figure, circa 1860 for Turkish cigarettes
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H 35.04 in W 7.88 in D 10.24 in
19th Century Giant American 10 Gallon Hat Original Shop Metal Trade Sign
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
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