Vintage 42" Pepsi Cola Bottle Cap Metal Sign Large Rare Outdoor - Fully Restored

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Well you just NEVER know what you will find around our storage area here at KHE. This month's listings are from some local Estate Sales & Consignments, some items are almost antique, hard to find and we have even some nice NOS (New Old Stock) items that are over 50 years old and still in the package. Other items are just plain old antiques, all are fairly unique. If you have that hard to find item let us know and we will take a look and see what we can find.
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DESCRIPTION:
UPDATE May 2018 ---》LAST CHANCE ON THIS ITEM,
For those who can't imagine where to put a large sign like this up to display, we have mounted it on our old Carriage House. Some may call it a "barn", but along the Erie Canal we have Carriage Houses, ours is circa 1890s. In any case it looks great, so good in fact we will list this item only once more. If it doesn't sell it stays where it is for the next 50 years. Last chance for this one.
ORIGINAL LISTING:
This listing is for a very RARE advertising sign for Pepsi Cola. This one was outdoors, we salvaged it a few years back and have been waiting to get the barn cleared to work on it. It's big, 42" square. All metal, it does have some smaller nail holes, rust & other issues from years of being used for advertising one of the most recognizable products of several generations.. Pepsi Cola. We date this to about 1945-55. We have removed the wood framing that came with this sign, for shipping weight.
We have started RESTORATION process on this product to make it Like-New. That is what you are bidding on, a restored, ORIGINAL mid-20th Century Pepsi Outdoor Advertising Sign. The sign is 42" square, about 3" thick. The front is recessed back about 1 1/2" and the Pepsi Bottle Cap has been stamped forward. There are a few bends & creases that will never "disappear" without total metal replacement.. we are NOT going that far. the sign will be "like-new" NOT perfect, please understand that. Just an FYI: The sign was painted WHITE when we first saw it... we found barn red under that.
The ORIGINAL background is that Pepsi "yellow" seen on signs of this generation. Most are striped, this one has a solid yellow background with small white dots resembling bubbles. We have a stencil done for that already. The Red, White & Blue colors of the bottle cap will be redone EXACTLY as you faintly see on the original. We have a stencil being made of the lettering, so we get an "exact" fit to what you see now. The sign has been scanned & measured to enable the most exact restoration. Currently the outside edges are slated to be Gray colored, with a White face to accent the Yellow & White Dotted backdrop. As we have no other signs to compare to we have to analyze what's here as we remove layers of old paint.
As we pass milestones in the restoration we will add more pictures to the eBay Listing showing restoration progress. Once the LAST couple picture's are added at the end of the restoration we will also be listing/showing locally so we do reserve the right to cancel this listing at any time... hope you all understand.
If and when this item sells, we will be boxing this up for shipment to the buyer. It's a big heavy sign so PLEASE do NOT ask for "free" shipping, just can't be done. We may be able to personally deliver to East Coast locations to save some shipping cost, we can work that out if it sells. Plan on - for shipping at minimum, more if you are West Coast buyers. We have large, double wall cardboard boxes for art of this size, which only makes this whole thing bigger and tougher to handle & ship. Plan on FedEx or UPS, US. Postal won't handle this size.
Thanks for taking a look at this week's treasures
FINE PRINT:
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