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28 Jan 2018 12:56 PM  

 Would love to share it with you all but I’ll be damed if I can attach the photo !! Happy to email it on if someone can do the honours 

 
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28 Jan 2018 02:11 PM  

you can email the photo to me if you want bushben62@gmail.com i will upload for you
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28 Jan 2018 02:41 PM  
Thats Really nice Craig..I got the blue verion..Wudnt mind the Pair of em...thanks for showing
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28 Jan 2018 03:04 PM  

 Thanks for that Ben 👍
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28 Jan 2018 03:20 PM  
There's an unusual green Rowntree's Cocoa sign on eBay 232639741731
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28 Jan 2018 04:19 PM  
Nice sign Craig - a great find!
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28 Jan 2018 06:43 PM  

 Wound like to see the blue one - can you put a picture on ?? 
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28 Jan 2018 08:49 PM  
Nice sign. Curious, is the green one for Irish market?
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28 Jan 2018 08:56 PM  

 I think that was the case Mick so you’d assume there wasn’t as many made in Green
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28 Jan 2018 09:04 PM  
Both green and blue were available in the catalogues to shopkeepers
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29 Jan 2018 07:50 PM  
Arkwrights, would shops have had a choice? It was always my impression that companies sent the signs without consulting? I'm probably wrong, but thought i'd ask for more info if you had it.
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29 Jan 2018 08:00 PM  
I have it from a good source this was the case. That signs along with shop fittings were catalogued and the shopkeepers ordered the preferred choice from that.
I will ask him though just to check
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29 Jan 2018 10:17 PM  

 If that’s the case I wonder why so many of the Fry’s Enamels were Blue rather than Green or sometimes Red ? If it were a choice you would think there’d be a more of the other colours about 
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30 Jan 2018 05:29 PM  

Not completely sure on this, but I wonder if some advertising sign colour preferences were based on how people interpreted colour meanings during that period of history – red and royal blue are regal colours that may have subconsciously communicated trust, stability, loyalty… 

Also if you look at military uniforms of the period Red and Blue colours are in the majority. There may also be a cultural connection as well as green is a lucky colour in the Emerald Isle, but in England you were always told not to buy a green car as they are unlucky. Also Ireland telephone enamels were usually green background as in England they were a dark blue background.
 
Any marketing colour historians in the group?
 
Just my 2p worth ;-)
 
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