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This authenic reproduction tin sign makes a great gift.
Back in the 1950s, my grandfather worked and later owned a gas station, and over the years he acquired all sorts of paraphernalia from the era. Grandpa had tin signs featuring Uncle Sam, The New York Yankees, and Coca-Cola. He also had an extensive collection of children’s toys and games from the 1950s that I always loved to play with when I visited him. When grandpa passed, I was only about 8 years old, and it wasn’t until I was older that my mom told me he had left me all the items he had in the gas station.
I took all of grandpa’s favorite possessions from the gas station, and set them up in my dining room. I’m not sure why I chose the dining room, other than dinner was often the reason I visited grandpa’s house. But since I incorporated all of grandpa’s stuff, I’ve received a lot of compliments from friends and even family members. My grandma told me it reminded her of grandpa.
Tin signs came into widespread use in the 1920′s, as a cheaper alternative to porcelain signs, used to advertise everything from gasoline to soda pop. Tin proved a good material to paint or to use with color lithography, and could also be stamped to achieve some texture.
The outbreak of WW2 halted tin sign production (in fact, many signs were melted down to be used in the war effort), and tin’s reappearance after the war was short lived (replaced by steel and later plastic). Be careful when buying vintage tin signs: they were prone to rust, which can greatly reduce value, and are also easy to reproduce. If your looking for some classic tin signs that are reproduced they can be found out there to decorate your kitchen, bathroom, den, family room, barn, or any room you choose.
spare guest room? Don’t have a basement, or if you do, either unfinished or it is filled to the brim with stuff? Well, buck up! There is still one room of the house that you can still claim as your own with little chance of having it shanghaied and turned into a sewing room or extra bedroom…the garage! With the help of tin signs and a little imagination, you can have your cake and eat it too. Two car garages offer more available space to work with, although space can be found in a single car garage.