Re: Oil dock sign in safe hands, not "borrowed" . . . 
| March 26, 2017 11:51AM |
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Popeye8762 Wrote:
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> {The sign is} in my living room right now. :-)
Johnson Barr Replied:
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> From whom did you "inherit" the sign, Popeye -
> As SFAICT (So Far As I Can Tell), it was
> "borrowed" several years before you were
> born . . .
Popeye8762 Confessed:
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> Thanks, Willie, but I'm closer to 60 than not!
> I was trying to describe the sign's construction
> for Paul, and, I just had my hired guy grab it in
> January, cause it was quite a trek in the snow,
> out to the oil rack. If they were gonna make new
> ones, I asked for the old one for Carpenter's
> Shop.
Which one do you have, Popeye -
The one that matches John West's and Dick Bell's photos - with the bullet holes in it - or the one from the other end?
If it IS the one with the bullet holes, it's one of the originals from at least the early 60's - probably from the early 40's - and is a valuable artifact that should be carefully preserved or maybe even restored to its original pre-C&TS appearance.
(The bullet holes are probably much younger than the sign itself.)
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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> {The sign is} in my living room right now. :-)
Johnson Barr Replied:
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> From whom did you "inherit" the sign, Popeye -
> As SFAICT (So Far As I Can Tell), it was
> "borrowed" several years before you were
> born . . .
Popeye8762 Confessed:
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> Thanks, Willie, but I'm closer to 60 than not!
> I was trying to describe the sign's construction
> for Paul, and, I just had my hired guy grab it in
> January, cause it was quite a trek in the snow,
> out to the oil rack. If they were gonna make new
> ones, I asked for the old one for Carpenter's
> Shop.
Which one do you have, Popeye -
The one that matches John West's and Dick Bell's photos - with the bullet holes in it - or the one from the other end?
If it IS the one with the bullet holes, it's one of the originals from at least the early 60's - probably from the early 40's - and is a valuable artifact that should be carefully preserved or maybe even restored to its original pre-C&TS appearance.
(The bullet holes are probably much younger than the sign itself.)
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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