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Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 02:26 PM
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I think it's a reproduction made to look old- Texaco sign
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 03:08 PM
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I think it's a reproduction made to look old- Texaco sign hope your not serious
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Re: Real or Repro
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About what? To me it looks like a repro that someone left outside. The T looks too wide. Maybe the way I wrote it was different on how it sounds. I know reproductions are made to look old. But this one is made to look original! Maybe that's a better way to put it.
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 04:58 PM
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Looks original to me. ROUGH but original. Wouldn't even make a decent barn hanger unless Doc worked his magic on it.  Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 05:01 PM
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PERHAPS IF YOU OVERLAPPED ANOTHER SAME SIZE TEXACO SIGN OVER THE MISSING PORCELAIN, THIS SIGN COULD WORK. BE SURE THIS ONE IS COVERING A GOOD SIZE HOLE IN THE WALL WHERE YOU ARE HANGING IT SO I CAN SERVE A DOUBLE PURPOSE!
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 05:19 PM
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I agree with you Keith, the T does look off.
It could be a matter of different sign makers standards when this sign was made in the teens and twenties (if it is an original).
If it is a reproduction, someone put a lot of effort into aging it.
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Re: Real or Repro
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Ebay sign:  My Sign: 
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Re: Real or Repro
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I thought they made it like my sign and a script version? From the looks of the script version it does not look anything like the one on ebay>
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Re: Real or Repro
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those repro 42" signs have not been made for that long, I believe they are also 2 sided. as originals are single sided.
Why would someone possibly take a $250. repop, destroy it, weld a piece on and hope to get $100. out of it. It's original.
I think we carry the repop thing a bit too far sometime.
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 06:21 PM
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Some great pictures of original signs. I didn't know that there were two different versions of the early design.
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 06:22 PM
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You Have a good financial point there KZ1000. Why would someone take a new re-pop sign to get less money for it. I have just never seen that version of the filling station sign. Thanks Guys!
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Re: Real or Repro
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Sun Feb 06 2011 06:23 PM
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Yes lots of nice pictures, I WANT ONE OF THOSE SIGNS,
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