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21 Jan 2018 05:07 PM  
No problem; pleased to hear it!
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21 Jan 2018 05:49 PM  
Hey sign- seeker thanks for that tip....worked for me to....often wondered how to do that!
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21 Jan 2018 06:40 PM  
It's very seldom I can give any computer tips, but glad it's helped!
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23 Jan 2018 12:23 PM  

 Here's the pic
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23 Jan 2018 01:26 PM  
There must have been so many of these shaped signs for the old buses - I wonder what happened to them all. This is the first one I've seen on eBay. There seem to be hardly any of them around now but they're on every single bus you see in old photographs of London. I suppose they probably got smashed up along with the buses each time one was put out of service.
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23 Jan 2018 04:35 PM  

 Here's one survivor Hinkslamps. It lives in the corner of my garage .  On iron , it's dated February 1909 .
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23 Jan 2018 04:40 PM  
That's an absolute beauty! I've never seen that before.
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23 Jan 2018 05:20 PM  

 First one to name all 4 partially obscured signs, wins a bar of chocolate. ( 3 are easy anway ) My money is on Banjo .
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23 Jan 2018 05:31 PM  
Hi Marcus, how about Sunlight soap cut out boy,John Bull 2d weekly,Wincarnis lady and Black cat cigs.
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23 Jan 2018 05:44 PM  

  Well done Peter . Glad I didn't put any REAL money on Spence !
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24 Jan 2018 02:42 PM  

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I would also like a bar of chocolate beacause there are clearly 5 partially obscured signs not 4 !

 

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24 Jan 2018 02:51 PM  
Posted By hinkslamps on 23 Jan 2018 01:26 PM
There must have been so many of these shaped signs for the old buses - I wonder what happened to them all. This is the first one I've seen on eBay. There seem to be hardly any of them around now but they're on every single bus you see in old photographs of London. I suppose they probably got smashed up along with the buses each time one was put out of service.


I hit a seam of shaped bryant and may matches ones in a London tip. The digger bucket tooth went through the first one and pulled them out like a pack of cards.

I think the companies had contracts with the trams etc and when these were up, all the signs we commercially disposed of not like the odd one off a shop.

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24 Jan 2018 04:03 PM  
That's really interesting to hear about the Bryant and May signs. That makes sense in relation to what you said about contracts. They were all got rid of in one go. And that would also explain why there seem to be so few of them around. There must be loads of them still buried under London and elsewhere.
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24 Jan 2018 04:03 PM  

 Nice try Ross , but Madwon pressed the buzzer first .LOL. He might share it with you though.
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