OK...

Side by side. Details and colours are much better on the Ebay version. Flesh colour, green water, blue hue in sky, beard colour, details on the collar of shirt and tie, etc etc etc........BUT Anybody notice the one sign looks to have a Grey main background and the book version a light blue????

I think the book version was taken with a camera with the settings WAY off, does anybody know the wherabouts of the book version example so we may get a proper pic?

I still believe the letters on the EBAY verison are faded from a deeper colour.

Its a great Sign !!

Is it Only me........................... or do you think,  possibly there is a bit of fading ?

HNY lummox

I don't do enamels but I think it's interesting too.

In defense of Mick et al. red is the first colour to go, although it would often tend to matt at the same time, not necessarily.

What no one has mentioned is the likelyhood of a life preserver in the 1880's ever being anything but red on white. They make yellow ones now but they are pure yellow and very bright. Yellow on white just doesn't work.

Can anyone find an example of such from that era?

The colours on the one from the book are clearly all wrong but it is odd that there is no red there either.

Posted By madwon on 27 Dec 2017 04:13 PM
ROSS, your probably right. Don't you get fed up with people droning on about it. What is needed is a new thread to avert peoples attention away from this one. It'll soon be over, only another day to go with a bit of luck.
Hope you all have an interesting find in 2018.

All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor MADWON Play in any reindeer games

 Can't read the maker's mark. Have you a link to that results page?