any bidders out there ot

[michael.warshaw]

http://cgi.ebay.com/MOPAR-PARTS-Vintage-hand-painted-wood-sign-CIRCA-1940-/370413835897?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item563e629679

i would love it for my garage wall but why is it so much money for a old wood sign. i would give him 500 max.

[desoto1939]

For this price the seller needs to have some form of paper work to state that this is an old sign and not one that someone has made. There are very good reproductiions. I agree that the sign looks to be in to good of condition to be 70 years old and not show any sign of wear or of the paint daing o peeling. Even if it was an inside wall hanging.

Too much for my blood and he needs to justify the cost. I have seen the metal porcelean signs for this cost and also the lighted signs.

[Flatie46]

I've got a friend that'll paint one up much cheaper, set it outside for a while let the sun bake the patina in good then hang it up in the man cave. When people ask, "Is it a real vintage sign"? I'll say why yes it is, but I might not mention what vintage.

[Mustang6147]

Ive seen signs like that at Ceder Point amusment park. Right by the old car ride. Considering the Geauga Lake, and Six Flag theme park shut downs, I would guess in that good of shape, it may be right out of one of there wood shops, and used?? yup probably along those old car ride routes. Call me a pesomist, thats alotta dough

[Niel Hoback]

Not a pessimist, but rather a pragmatist.

[michael.warshaw]

i put a 500 offer in, but i dont think the seller will accept i cant see it being worth more.

[Charlie Olson]

$500? I offered $100.

[michael.warshaw]

to me 500 aint bad anything more than that its nuts

[BobT-47P15]

I will say the back of the sign appears to be old wood..........

[tinlizzy]

Sucks guys for that price I could build me a larger garage if I did it myself.

[BobT-47P15]

I guess I'll just stick with my $12 metal new sign that was made to look old.....

[BobT-47P15]

Another new metal sign.......found somewhere in my travels.

Doesn't look aged, but I like it.

[TJM70's_48]

I am always a skeptic on these kinds of things...especially hand painted.

Although the sign is beautifully done, and does look like it's on old wood, are there are holes or marks on the back to show where / how it was mounted?

Sometimes it's possible to find a NOS metal mass produced sign in an old back room, attic, basement or warehouse but if someone went to the effort to have a sign painter MAKE it, you can bet they would have HUNG it up. Our ancestors were far too practical to have paid for a sign from a signmaker and then stashed it in the closet.

Can anyone make out a means of hanging? That might lend credibility to either it's legitimacy or the cleverness of a possible forger...I can't decide.