More signs and other historic transportation documents are displayed in glass cases in a nearby hallway. “This one is my favorite,” said Fisher, pointing to a porcelain shotgun-style marker ...

Classic advertising signs are one of these items, specifically the porcelain signs from the golden age of the early-to-mid 20th century. These signs — which were still common at backroad gas ...

In Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 1, Nicholas Cline appraises a Magnolia Petroleum Co. porcelain sign, ca. 1930. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...

Think you can spot an antique porcelain plate worth thousands from a pile of thrift store items? One man in Illinois managed to do so at a Goodwill store in a Chicago suburb. "I bought a rare 18th ...

They are special because every gas station on every corner would have sign advertising the brand of gas they sold. The poles are 18 feet tall holding a 6-foot porcelain sign. These signs have ...

WE FIRST STARTED OFF AS A RADIO COMPANY WHERE WE SOLD OLD TUBE RADIOS, AND THEN MY FATHER AND I STARTED COLLECTING NEON SIGNS AND PORCELAIN SIGNS. JUST COOL OLD AMERICANA STUFF. MAX GUTMANS AND ...

Advertising signs might be made to drum up business for the present, but the signs Chris Webb of Knoxville likes are those that harken back to the past. The mortgage banker has become an avid ...

A Musgo Gasoline sign recently sold for $1.5 million on the auction block. Richmond Auctions says the antique 48" double sided porcelain sign set a new world record for the most expensive antique ...