Archive for May, 2010
VIM CLEANSER AND POLISHER
Vintage ad for Vim, turned into a metal wall sign. This shows a maid winding up a little clockwork man, while several more are polishing the tableware. The figures, oddly, look a bit like Diddy Men. In the bottom corner are the words “Brightens the Home & the Age”.
Quality vintage style metal wall sign, aluminium metal coated pre drilled holes for easy hanging, retail packaged. 400mm x 300mm.
20hp SILVER EAGLE
The Silver Eagle was a luxury car produced in the late 1920s and early 1930s by the Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd, Coventry.
Midi Metal Wall Sign – 30 x 20cms. Vintage Transport. By Design A Sign Limited – one of the UK’s leading specialist metal sign providers. Steel sign with high gloss finish.
H.P. SAUCE
That particularly British icon, HP Sauce, is featured in this vintage ad-inspired sign. It shows a boy with a bottle of sauce in his basket running away from an unhappy-looking pig. The tagline reads “Good with bacon”.
Extra large, high quality metal wall sign.
STARTLING STORIES
ISLE OF MAN STEAMER
Colourful retro poster advertising the Steam Packet Company’s new route to the Isle of Man via steamer boat. The ship in the picture is the Manxman.
Large Metal Wall Sign – 400mm x 300mm. Part of a unique range of reproduction metal signs manufactured by designAsign – one of the UK’s leading specialist metal sign providers.
PEARS SOAP
A Pears Soap retro metal sign, unusually not displaying a child or baby. Rather, it’s a man covered in soap and holding a wash bowl, and a towel with Pears written on it.