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Found these in the hills of kentucky laying next to a barn ,8ft standard oil company two signs with original frame couple bullet holes their dirty still but have good color just seen the corner of the sign and new I had to bring it back to michigan with me,could barely fit em in the van, my second set of doubles found two sunoco signs laying in scrap pile recently, happy pickr
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These are from the fifties, letters are highlighted in red, mine solid white found a history on signs said mine was used 1928.
Thanks trey for the info figured late 40s early 50s
I found some pics of old standard stations,and these signs would have been for a pole sign ,looks like they hung by the top by two straps,or hinges , one pic shows sign pole with square frame at top made of round pipe, another has L and the sign hangs
See you found the site luna , cant wait to see your pics, I know you got enough to post here for days.put a pic of that sunoco you got from me