Rare old Arizona State highway sign on ebay

[Brian556]

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

[NE2]

"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."

[Brian556]

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.

[US71]

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.

[Scott5114]

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.

[NE2]

lock/trash

[US71]

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.

[agentsteel53]

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.

[iflypsa]

Arizona never used that shape, font, or style. Nice fake California signage.

[agentsteel53]

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.

[US71]

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