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Can someone help with Tin sign where were they used an is the sign right searched everywhere can not find one thanks in advance let the experts chime in sign is dirty an untouched thanks 10x 15

it looks like porcelain to me

Font looks funny to me....
Also where is the date in the bottom right??

Here is mine in a different size.

yours appears to be porcelain?..
the picture above..

Something is off. Look at the S in Gasoline and the REG. T.M. is way off in the logo. Not saying it's not legit, but man looks like a factory reject. I don't know what's going on with the back, the front like Dan L. mentions looks like porcelain.

Never seen anything like this.

Bill Fortune (sp) might chime in. During the 60'-70's they made all kinds of pump plates "TIN" & Oil Rack signs.

Supposedly they were to be destroyed, many of them were bent in half. These were F/C's & S/C's etc... I also heard they were for the foreign market ? The F/C tin sign with the banjo sign is a good example. You would find S/C's with black bottoms dated 1972. The oil rack signs were the same as the checker Board style from the 40's. Butch Greer (sp) found and sold me one dated 1968. I'm betting this is what you have here and in fact it is painted tin like you said.

TennPicker, that's not a real thin layer of porcelain is it ?

...those 10 x 15" signs are weird...the Sky Chief lettering is spaced out, compared to the other sizes - but I think it's like that on all of them, and the Sky Chief Marine signs, too...

...it looks as though this sign spent time mounted on a pump...the dates on these tended to 'fill in', because the dates were 'knocked out' of the red, and the red had a tendency to 'flow' back into them...same thing happened to a lot of the older Sky Chief signs, in the black...when silkscreening something like this, it's important to make the letters bold enough, so they'll remain visible...

...hard to tell without holding the sign in your hands, but I'd venture a guess that if the sign is flimsy (like the other Sky Chief signs), it's more likely that it's 'right'...if it's thick and clunky, it's more likely a fake...

...surely someone out there has another 10 x 15" sign, for comparison?

If some one wants to step up for me, I believe I have photos of some of these signs I just mentioned. I can email that person the photos tonight. Yes, Sorry Dick but I still haven't learned how to sink photos on oldgas.com ; )

Doug

this is painted tin but a latter model sign..

...an older post:

http://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=96388&page=1

...check out the weird one, 13th post down: it's Petrox, but no Su-preme...and it's a 10 x 15" as well...

Randy That's exactly the one I mentioned. That will save me finding my photos, Thanks

No its painted tin thank you for sharing your knowledge

Here are two tin 10" x 15" signs. They are both dated 1974. One thing I did notice on all of the tin Texaco signs I have the mounting holes are in the corners. The sign in question has mounting holes like the porcelain versions(in from the edge on top and bottom).


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One other thing, I would date the sign from about 1955 thru 1960 based on the introduction of Petrox and the use of the Reg T.M. logo in the white circle.

For Bill and the guys keeping track Petrox was introduced in 1955 and in 1959 Texaco Inc. produced new 12" X 18" Sky Chief W/Petrox Gasoline Plates with "No" REG. T.M. or a Circle R in the Logo... So in short I believe your plates will be dated from 1955-1958.