What's the deal with this? A state route sign with no route number? WTF?
There is not even one of these in the shield gallery.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Road-Sign-Traffic-Highway-State-Route-Arizona-Swastika-Symbol-/121029773836?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c2defca0c (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Road-Sign-Traffic-Highway-State-Route-Arizona-Swastika-Symbol-/121029773836?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c2defca0c)
"I am selling this as a reproduction. This is a good reproduction and will probaly not find another one for sale on the internet or on ebay. It fooled me when I purchased it at an antique store in Florida."
I didn't read the description. This has got to be the best job of faking rust I've ever seen.
If this is a reproduction, does that mean that there were real ones exactly like it? I find it rather odd that it has no route number on it.
Quote from: Brian556 on November 27, 2012, 09:17:14 PM
I didn't read the description. This has got to be the best job of faking rust I've ever seen.
If this is a reproduction, does that mean that there were real ones exactly like it? I find it rather odd that it has no route number on it.
I don't think that's a genuine route marker. I think the real markers were state shaped with the swastika at the bottom. I've got a photo somewhere.
Yeah, that's a definite forgery. Looks like it's supposed to be embossed font era, yet the round font is simply modern Series E and the square font looks like something out of those "1000+ FONTS FOR WINDOWS" CDs.
Doubt it is even meant to replicate something that actually exists.
lock/trash
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 28, 2012, 11:30:04 AM
Yeah, that's a definite forgery. Looks like it's supposed to be embossed font era, yet the round font is simply modern Series E and the square font looks like something out of those "1000+ FONTS FOR WINDOWS" CDs.
Doubt it is even meant to replicate something that actually exists.
Maybe it made by the same guy who made those hideous Route 66 signs a while back.
Quote from: US71 on December 03, 2012, 09:40:33 PM
Maybe it made by the same guy who made those hideous Route 66 signs a while back.
it is. same fake rust.
fake rust is easy. it's the same as real rust. just leave the sign out for a few months, hitting it with the sprinkler every so often. I do that on signs I sandblast and then realize that they're so pitted that they're not worth repainting.
Arizona never used that shape, font, or style. Nice fake California signage.
Quote from: iflypsa on December 10, 2012, 11:29:25 PM
Arizona never used that shape, font, or style. Nice fake California signage.
California never used that either! especially not that horror of a "serifs painted on by drunken chimpanzees" font that they used for ARIZONA.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 11, 2012, 10:17:06 AM
Quote from: iflypsa on December 10, 2012, 11:29:25 PM
Arizona never used that shape, font, or style. Nice fake California signage.
California never used that either! especially not that horror of a "serifs painted on by drunken chimpanzees" font that they used for ARIZONA.
Well, I guess the PT Barnum Effect kicked in again: it sold for $99