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I have been collecting all types of "signs" for over forty years and have many very valuable items in my collection, most of my signs are original and were bought legitimatly, I once bought an Original London Bus Stop complete with E Plates from the London Transport Museum "sale day" when it was based at Syon Park and it cost a mere £2, they also had on sale that day Original Brass Uplighters from the escalator shafts on the Underground and they were priced at £25, unfortunatly that was out of my price range and is a missed opportunity that I have regretted ever since.
fishislandskin | 06.10.11 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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St Pancras Great Northern? Some mistake surely?
And if only I had bough some of the loco name plates going for a song at BR's Collectors Corner, near Euston, in the 1970s, I could have been rich!
Tony Martin | 06.10.11 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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I remember Collector's Corner too - a real treasure house!
Richard | Homepage | 06.10.11 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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Get yourself a copy of P22 Johnston, or Gill Sans and make up your own signs. Its easy, and fun!
Max Roberts | Homepage | 06.10.11 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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Oops, how did these get to be shown in public ...
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mjr/P9022631.JPG
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mjr/P9022658.JPG
Max Roberts | Homepage | 06.10.11 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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(City of London) "Signs are .... printed in two colours using the City of Westminster's instantly recognisable font"
which is completely different from that used by the City itself - the City's signs also include the heraldic crest.
I noticed "St Pancras Great Northern" too. There are other issues - the "western brown" and "midlands red" colours both look too dark to me, the the red being too brown and the brown looking almost black. As for the magenta, that's entirely fictional: these British Railways era totems came in six regional colours, not seven: the former Great Northern lines were part of the Eastern Region and used the dark blue colour.
And this historical anachronisms are being advertised by a Museum?
Timbo | 06.10.11 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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Each station has at least 10 £895 signs...
4ft by 5ft enamel-covered metal plate unbent: http://www.alex4d.com/blogpics/sign_4ft_high.jpg
No diamond full stops in P22 Underground http://www.alex4d.com/blogpics/roundels.pdf
Alex Gollner | Homepage | 06.10.11 - 4:09 p.m. | #
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Good heavens, those "City of London" signs are about as authentic as those moody Liverpool shirts you see being sold on Oxford Street with "Liverpool" in a Carlsberg font.
Darryl | Homepage | 06.10.11 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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if you want a sign go direct to a j wells a lot cheaper
mark | 06.10.11 - 7:11 p.m. | #
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I think I'll order "Barking".
Blue Witch | Homepage | 07.10.11 - 1:00 p.m. | #
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