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I recently bought this sign at the Portland swap meet without even questioning its authenticity. I've had someone mention it may be a reproduction. What's your guys thoughts on it?

I found these 2 pictures doing an oldgas search if this helps at all. The ones in holders are not my sign.

There is a 15" x 18" one on ebay right now for $41 from India that looks a lot like yours and not like the two examples provided.

the guy that mentioned it maybe reproduction.....
is right

I thought it looked wrong in the BOTW posting........

Well thanks for the input guys. Guess I should have done more research before I bought. He had a lot of signs and they looked good to me and I know a guy that bought from him in the past. I'm trying to figure out how to contact the seller, he always has a craigslist ad in the Seattle area. I'm going to mark the back of the sign repro and if I cant get the seller to take it back, I'll hang it on the wall of mistakes.

I concur, that sign is no good. Try to get your money back.

-Steve

Glad I’m a pump guy.... I think the signs look pretty much the same, I don’t really see the difference. I’ll stick to pumps!! Chris

It looks like a black strip across sign where FIRESTONE is written, is that the tell tale difference?

Is it double sided? Can you post a picture of the other side?

its single sided. I'll get a pic of the back this evening

The real lollipop signs don't have mounting holes/grommets like the fake sign posted by the OP. The black stripe is another dead giveaway that it's bogus. Sloppy lettering on the fake...on and on. Everything about it is wrong.

^^What he said^^

....on and on. I can see several other discrepancies, I just don’t like to post them all on here for India to see. If you want to know a few more, PM me Jake.

-Steve

Back if sign of subject. Size is 15”x18”

Like I mentioned in the PM, size is definitely wrong. That size is the India ones. Besides all the discrepancies, the black block on the front is the tell-tale.

I hope you are able to get your money back. We’ve all been there before. Wish you luck.

-Steve

Well besides for fake signs being out there still, this story has a better ending for me. It took quite a bit of research but I was able to locate the seller on eBay based on a sign he had for sale at the show and listed on eBay. I reached out to him and he is refunding my money. The story I got and want to believe is he was selling some signs for a friend and didn't check them closely. He did have a repo husky sign at the show and had it clearly marked as such so I think he is honorable. Come to find out through this whole thing he has over 500 signs in his collection and lives about an hour from me so I may have made a friend haha.
Thank you to everyone that chimed in and to the original person who messaged me telling me I may have a fake on my hands. I really enjoy the OLDGAS community and what it is about. Not many places do you find people that have the other guys back that they may have never met before. Nobody had to tell me and I could have had that sign in my collection for years to come and thinking it was real the whole time. luckily everyone helped me out and I was able to recover my money on this one.

THANK YOU

Jake

Good mews, sometimes it does work out.

Glad to hear the news Jake. Glad he was honorable and gave you your money back.

-Steve

We need to remember situations like this to remind us of all the good guys out there (the oldgassers who chimed in and the guy refunding your money). A lot of times you only hear the negative stuff so this is good to hear.

BrianH

Glad it worked out for you ,Jake. Although it is sometimes a blow to our pride or ego, Im pretty sure we would all like to know if something we bought as original is not so...