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Pastor G 
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 Topic: Sign on eBay real or fake?
Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 8:21am |
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252155986808 ebay listing. Is this vintage original or is it some one blowing hot air trying to rip somebody off? Doesn't seem very believable.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 9:42am |
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gee it looks original, rusty in the right places but at $100 CDN I'd rather have a repo unit and 4 sets of D-14 rockshaft cylinder kits and hoses !
Jay
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 10:14am |
http://www.ebay.com/itm/252155986808?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2FBusiness-Industrial-%2F12576%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D252155986808%26_rdc%3D1
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I have one like that. Since it says it is porcelean and not just "paint" I would assume it is original ..... Allis use to put signs like that on some bigger motors and generator sets.
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tbran
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 4:18pm |
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I got one like I off a TVA transformer. The bidder got the job to replace the AC unit with another brand 40 years later model. Lost his hinney - set the new one off with the local crane - had to hire another crane and special trailer to haul off the old AC. They missed the weight as the old AC weighed 4 times the new one - with out oil...they don't make them like they used to...
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bauerd44
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 5:37pm |
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I have smaller size (4" square) name plates that are porcelean, that came off of smaller transformer. I made a wall plaque out of old barn wood and mounted them on.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 6:02pm |
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looks as real as the bullet dents...
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Crewchief
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 6:35pm |
There's a guy on 1 of the FB group sights that got took twice on signs on Ebay. Eventually Ebay got his money back. I've delt in "old stuff" 4 nearly 40 years. 1st rule of thumb,,,,,,,,,,,If u got ANY dout,,,,,,,leave it .
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Pastor G
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 6:45pm |
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JohnCO
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Posted: 27 Nov 2015 at 8:36pm |
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Doesn't say he bought it in Europe, just that he is back from there. Asking $75 for it in the ad I see. Not interested anyway.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 28 Nov 2015 at 11:51pm |
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I have two of those in nicer condition. I'm about 98% sure I picked them up from The Allis Connection show back when they still met in Homestead Amana.
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Fred in Pa
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Posted: 29 Nov 2015 at 11:26am |
Even if it is porcelean dose not mean it is old. The reproductions are also porcelean (most of them). Here is a picture of a repro. a friend of mine got me off e-pay years ago (it said right in the add that it was made of .040 thin metal with thin porcelean coating) .It is a real thin layer of porcelean. I just hung it in my shop .Did not put it in show room. Was darker orange color changed just from shop lights shinning on it . My guess ,REPRODUCTION ,one in above add  
Edited by Fred in Pa - 29 Nov 2015 at 11:34am
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ACmowerguy
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Posted: 29 Nov 2015 at 11:38am |
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I don't know about that sign specifically but I have seen lots of artificially rusted signs of all types showing up on eBay as reproductions. I have seen some at tractors shows that you can hardly tell, if it weren't for the Chinese plastic sleeve they're in.
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