Type & Lettering Sightings

Vintage hand-painted sign seen in Evansville, Wisconsin on August 7, 2004. This building was in the process of being restored. It had been covered in imitation brick tar paper. Amazingly, the surface beneath is barely weathered. The building was painted silver with these large coal-black letters about two feet tall on both sides of the building. The style appears to be late nineteenth century, but it could have been later than that, especially considering the condition.

Vintage sign seen in Wisconsin Dells, July 31, 2003.

Packaging label seen in an antique store in Hixton, Wisconsin on July 29, 2004.

A rather badly maintained vintage sign seen in Bemidji, Minnesota, June 25, 2002.

Vintage sign seen in Puyallup, Washington, June 17, 2001.

Vintage sign seen in St. Paul on June 8, 2002. The building was demolished a few days later.