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#41253 Wed Jan 19 2005 03:02 PM
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ebay item # 7128813167


Got Socony???

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#41254 Wed Jan 19 2005 03:23 PM
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My money's on real!

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PERSONALLY, MY HANDS ARE UP IN THE AIR! THERE'S SO MUCH CONTROVERSY ON THIS SIGN IT MAKES MY HEAD SPIN.
WHILE I KNOW THERE'S THE FEW HIDDEN EXCEPTIONS TO COLLECTING THE BASICALLY UNKNOWN - UNHEARDOF - AND RECENTLY SURFACED PROOF OF ADDITIONAL SIZES - THE BOOKS SAY THIS SIGNS ARTWORK WAS MADE IN 12 X20" AND 20 X30" SIZES. THIS ONE IS 12 X18" AND WHILE ANDE ROONEY REPOPS HAVE FOUR HOLES AND ARE THE SAME SIZE...THIS ONE HAS 10! ROONEY SIGNS ARE CLEARLY MARKED AS BEING REPOP AND THIS SIGN IS MINUS THOSE MARKINGS. COULD THERE BE A 3RD SIZE? CURIOUS TO KNOW AS THIS AND ANOTHER SIZE (10 X14"?) ALSO COMES UP ON OCCAISION.
I PERSONALLY WOULDN'T BUY ONE UNLESS I COULD TOUCH IT AND SEE THE SHELVING, ETC.
I'M STILL STUMPED!

DOC @ TAG/WEST

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My money stays in my pocket on this one.
I vote REPODUCTION

#41257 Wed Jan 19 2005 07:39 PM
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YOU KNOW MY #1 RULE IS IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE ITEM YOUR BUYING DON'T BUY IT.WHEN I VIOLATE THIS RULE I LOSE.
REX

#41258 Wed Jan 19 2005 08:10 PM
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Missing Grommets, i.e. someone driled extra holes???

Here's the ebay one.


If it is a repop someone did a nice job of distressing it???

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It certainly is confusing!!! I go with Rex's idea....don't buy if your not sure. I'm just glad I have a nice original, and I'm not in the market for another one.

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#41260 Thu Jan 20 2005 02:30 PM
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Let's say you owned this. Any definitive way you could "prove" it was old? Maybe have a tiny sliver analyzed by a lab or something?

Anderton's book has something in the back about "chemically testing the paint" and proving a sign was *not* old.

Just wonderin'.

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