Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums Showcase and Stories, Petroliana COTM, Feb 2011 Curbsigns

This months collectible of the month is Curbsigns.
Post your pic's of your curb, sidewalk, lollipop signs and maybe a story on how you obtained it. History and pic of the bases...
I will post some of mine later...so lets see yours!

My Sinclair Curb Sign and 50 Ford

Here's my Veedol curb sign with original Tide Water base.

SWEET!!!!

My One and only at the current time:

every veedol curb sign I have ever seen had the factory generic bases...now I know what the real base looks like..thanks for posting.

lets see some more!

my one and only!!

Peggy's portrait! Sweet!

These were bought from an old collector who bought them in Missouri.

Been looking at this John Madden sign for years at an old shell station. Finally stopped in and bought it for $15 the other day.

My first but hopefully not my last.......bought it right here on Old Gas last year..

Another Old Gasser called me on this one when he spotted it in an antique store and thought that I would like it! I liked it and made a deal with the store and got it shipped over here! It cleaned up real nice and sits in my shop today!

How about some shots of the bases? I for one would like to see what the correct bases should look like. Alot of curb signs used the generic bases and are correct with alot of the signs, but some of those same signs also had their own embossed bases. Thanks guys for the post so far. Looking good.

I got a couple pictures of Sinclair curb signs, couple of dads;
Front and back sides;





A Koolmotor my brother sold at Columbus


As seen at the Columbia MO show a few years ago;



A couple of mine;

I love that Superflame, Wes!

Here's another Tide Water base for ya.

Mobil base i picked up last week,guy said gimme 50 i said whoa "kimo sabe" a little steep for a piece of iron,he says weight wise at the scrap yard it would bring 15. so we settled at 20. and that's the story!I wish they all worked like that!

Favorite of mine.

I like that one Greg!

I'm still working on the post & Freedom sign holder with sign.

Somewhat rare Freedom base

My friend Butch Greer sent these for me to post.
If you don't know Butch, he always has some clean stuff and is easy to deal with.

Have spoke with Butch a few times, great guy!!

Cool signs guys. ;;;;;;;;;Ron

Cool signs, guys!
Here's mine..1/2 Phillips and 1/2 Valveoline.
Thanks,
Rod van Pelt

Here are a few of mine

Very nice. no, make that very, very, very, nice Dennis.

Love the way you have everything laid out Dennis, looks great!!!

Awesome Dennis !

Thanks guys. The Powerlube is one of my favorites. There are a lot of Powerlube signs around, but not too many are still in the curb frames. Here is another of my favorites. The bottom is a chalkboard where the price of gas would be posted. I'm not sure how this one survived over the years. The image at the top is actually an original decal transfer.

Well said Maurice.......

#@%$&! Dennis, I just knocked the drool bucket over again!

and I thought I was the only one thinking that....

Wow Dennis, unreal signs and condition. Looks like a great collection.

It's gonna be hard following that!

Here's a few of mine.

a few more wish the enarco boy was cleaner but I bought it right

oh i like that marine!!nice.

I think we should try to remember that this feature is for petro items. Non-petro items should be posted in the non-petro section. I've noticed more non-petro than usual ending up in Showcase lately.

WOW!! Mine don't really fit in here now after some of the previous posts, but I'll post them anyway...

More..

More

Lastly..

This isn't a curbsign but maybe a driveway sign. At least it's at the end of my driveway..

please show me any words in the discription that it says only gas oil related, Thanks

I guess that would be my fault by not stating petro related only. I just assumed that everyone knew that there are two forums on this site...petro and non petro..

SO I guess let me say now...PETRO related curbsigns only.
Guess I need to also state...Curbsigns mounted in the frames, stands, bases.
I really didn't want this to turn into everyones 24", 30", signs without their stands.
Wanted to help all members on this site to show their petro related curbsigns in their stands/with bases to educated/inform the others if they have the correct stand/bases or what to look for to make their curbsigns correct.

Those are very nice ice cream sidewalk signs you posted, but really should have been posted in the non petro showcase.

again, my fault.

Sooooooo....lets get this show back on the road and see some more!

I have just added a new topic in non petro related showcase and stories. COTM non petro related curbsigns.

http://oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=231434&#Post231434

Sorry, I guess I was posting my picture when discussion about non petro came up, please delete my post if the Coca-Cola offends anyone. Thanks

Gas Stations sold Ice Cream, along with Coca Cola

Your right Rick. They also sold other items.

But lets keep it petro.

Here are the only two curb signs in my collection that are currently in frames. They take up a lot of room, especially when you keep them in the kitchen like I do.



Dave

Some info on Sinclair curb signs;
This Gasoline sign is on a cast iron base that says Oils. It should probably be on a different base. The sign has four mounting holes in it;





This sign is on a base I believe was used by several different companies;



The sign only has two mounting holes in it. They do not appear to be spaced the same as on the bottom of the sign with 4 mount holes;



Here is a picture of a similar sign but it has 4 mount holes in it. Make sure you know what base you need if you are trying to put together a curb sign.

This was going along so nicely with no bad comments like so often and then "someone" had to spoil it with the Non Petro comment. Come on Tara, this is supposed to be fun and not so serious. YES, service stations dis sell Ice Cream and other products. Good job Paddy, keep it up

thank you Raymond my friend...and yes I still have that curbsign that you brought to me at Seths auction 4 years ago...still enjoying it.

I had this for a long time, sold it, then bought it back. Bought it originally in Northwestern PA back in the mid 90's I think.

Here is my HC Lollipop. I am new to the Forum so I hope everthing gets uploaded properly. Sorry about the Red Sign Holders, I know they are supposed to be green but I still have not repainted the originals. A good friend of mine sold me the sign.