Signs Wood

Popular in the making of vintage signs wood is inexpensive and durable. Whether advertising or just for decoration, metal signs, wood signs and tin signs have a long history and provide us with a glimpse of the past. In this modern era of mass marketing, we are bombarded by electronic messages. After awhile, advertising and promotions all start to sound, feel and look the same. There was a time when the perfect combination of artistry, imagination and originality could be found in vintage metal signs, wood signs and tin signs. Many of today's most recognizable brand names got their start as old fashioned tin and wood signs.

Products too numerous to mention have been promoted with a style and wit that today seems all too nostalgic. Vintage metal signs, wood signs and tin signs were produced by the hundreds of thousands from the mid eighteen hundreds through the advent of television in the late nineteen forties. Most were painted or screen printed using enamel paint and many were given a porcelain overcoat to increase their durability. The irony of all this is that many old fashioned tin signs outlived the very companies and products they were meant to promote.

This is not say that metal signs have completely disappeared from the landscape. Highways signs, street signs and metal signs of kinds are still with us, though most serve a more utilitarian purpose. The golden age of old fashioned tin signs, wood signs and metal signs has been maintained through reproductions and the zeal of collectors to preserve a piece of advertising and artistic history.