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An Ebay beauty RAWSON - EVANS

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Bob Ficucell
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An Ebay beauty RAWSON - EVANS

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Anybody else seen this? Bob

http://cgi.ebay.com/RAWSON-EVANS-REVERS ... dZViewItem
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Mike Jackson
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Photo from their auction

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John Yarnell
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So who got it? Mike was it you?
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Mike Jackson
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No, it wasn't me. That guy had called me a week or two before the auction wanting to know how to sell the piece. I think I could have bought it at that time for $500, but I don't have the budget for it right now. I suggest that he NOT try to restore any part of it, and I also suggested he give the National Sign Museum a shot at it before putting it up for auction. I didn't check to see who won it.

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signprincess won it for $499.
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I sent the seller an email with questions.

He was told at some point the sign could go for as much as 2000 dollars. Someone in the Cincinnati area had already offered him 500.

At the time he was going to leave it up for auction, but have no idea what it went for.
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Kelly Thorson
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Interesting...

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There is an interesting dynamic here.....
That sign was almost 10 square feet in size and it went for $500.
That's about $50 a square foot.
I'm curious as to what some of us would charge to reproduce that.
How much more than the 100 year old Rawson and Evans original would your reproduction be worth?
Something about this reality makes me sad.....
But on a brighter note...I'm really glad you aren't signprincess Mike! :lol:
John Yarnell wrote:So who got it? Mike was it you?
Whoever she is, I think she did good, and judging from her profile, I suspect it will resurface again.
I believe there is no shame in failure. Rather, the shame lies in the loss of all the things that might have been, but for the fear of failure.
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