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#113595 Mon May 21 2007 04:30 PM
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I find it interesting that backs of every sign this guy sells looks the same. Also, none of signs have any groments and the groments holes are all chipped the same. Hummm.

Something else, they appear to have been fired in a kiln that uses square stilts. It's more apparent on some signs than others.

What do think?




















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#113597 Mon May 21 2007 04:48 PM
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And here is what he just bought from a seller in Germany on ebay.










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#113598 Mon May 21 2007 04:50 PM
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Another sign from the guy in Germany




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I would tend to agree, VERY suspicious, You would do well as a detective!!

#113600 Mon May 21 2007 05:06 PM
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Thanks gasgeezer, I bought a sign from him on ebay a few months ago that just didn't look right to me, so I've been watching what he's been selling ever since. There been others with the same patterns that I didn't get a pictures of.

Here a couple of closeups of the square stilt pattern I mentioned from the one I bought.






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#113601 Mon May 21 2007 07:29 PM
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Mark, yes unfortunately these are fakes. I saw a bunch of similar signs- gas, oil, auto, country store products at the Metrolina antique show in Charlotte NC. Some were double sided. They were being sold as "old" and priced high to trick buyers. Ed


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no advertising is safe !!!!... be careful out there ... damn shame...

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Nice work Detective Mark. A couple months ago my wife and I were watching that Crisco sign and came to the same conclusion. Scary snake. These people are going to cross the wrong person eventually and learn about the "hard way".

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Are you sure about these signs are repo?? Did you notice that Amistadi bought the Crisco sign number 190099974357 I thought he wrote a sign book a few years back? Was he fooled also?

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I wrote this guy when I noticed the backs of all his signs looked the same. I asked if they were found in a dump or old wet basement? He said they had belonged to his Dad. He said he didn't know anything about signs and didn't care to know anything!

That and his low feedback number and name was enough for me!!

Bob

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Bob, if the signs had all belong to his Dad, then how do you explain the two signs he just bought on ebay from a guy in Germany. That story doesn't line up.

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If anyone thinks they are real, I'll be more than happy to sell the Husky I bought from him last year. Give me a Grand and it's yours.

It's just like the one he's currently selling.


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I bought a SOCONY aircraft oils sign that I'm trying to return now. Slightly bowed, rust on the back(the other 150 porcelain signs I own don't have rust) round chips(about the size of a hammer) only at the mounting holes with a lighter color. The sign colors don't match the original. Porcelain is fairly heavy and compares with my original in shelving which makes it appear orignal to the touch. This s%$# has been sold as European but I think they are as fake as the come. Perhaps the member who knows how to age date this can get one tested. I'll volunteer and pay to have mine tested if anyone knows how. That way proof
will be available to show the world these are BS. When someone like Amistadi bids or buys a sign it makes it look legit. Things are not always what they appear to be in sign collecting anymore and I've only been at it 5 years.

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It's amazing what a hammer and some muratic acid will do.
Every Porcelain sign I have ever held, had glass on the back.
Not to cover the back defeats the purpose of a weatherproof sign....That is why they were porcelain....is this guy a retard or what. It is funny how not one of his signs has any grommetts....1 dead givaway among many
Joe


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