I remember reading a story about how a sign manufacturer would just bury the misprints or overruns on their property
That is American art works here in coshocton. I know people that dug them up. The place that i am digging at is literally in the middle of the woods On land once owned and mined by Peabody coal company. There is a little more to the story that i have shared with a couple people... It has to do with American art works a mine shaft and this dump lol. Lots of people think American art works was simply tin signs but that is not true they did a lot of early porcelain signs. If i had a dime for all the blank or misprint porcelain signs i have found i would be very rich lol.
When i am digging and i find what i think is the back of a porcelain sign i always check if its finished before i go through all the work of digging it up. I have had blanks in all sizes from 24" to 6' and 8'long ones. When American art works threw the signs outback before they pushed them in a whole and buried them the farmers would come and gather up a truck load of signs. Some of them were completely finished with a small blemish. Lots of companies have been interested in the land where the factory was but don't want to go through all the environmental clean up involved with the signs that are buried
Robert
