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Posted 4 months ago
ho2cultcha
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I saw an old friend of mine today and he gave me a whole bunch of beautiful old signs he's collected over the years. He has a lot of really great ones. He has worked in resource protection for the State Parks Dept. for many years - hence the next set of signs i'm going to post. The Utoco and Cyclone Fence signs are both porcelain enamel and the other ones are not. Can the UTOCO one be restored? I think Utoco was a division of Texaco in Utah, but i'm not sure.
Porcelain SignsFrom the 1880s until the 1950s, one of the most dominant forms of outdoor a…
Tin SignsWhen tin advertising signs first appeared in the U.S. around the beginning …
The UTOCO looks like the Amoco or Standard Oil emblem
is there any way to restore the porcelain utoco sign?