Posted 10 years ago
Twells
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Seems this company the Armour Grain Company came into existence during the civil war. They went belly up or sold to another battle creek company in the middle 1920's. This sign is the only one I know of in existence all over the net.
I am being told it has a high value, unfortunately, not sure whether to market it on some selling site or auction house. The story goes that the brothers and their fathers were such stinkers that they literally sold spoiled meats, etc...to the military people as well as folks on the street. Sinclair Lewis' book "The Jungle" was suppose to be an expose on Armour's Chicago meat packing plant,,,nasty stuff,,,people would be stirring those big vats of meat, one of the workers would fall off into the boiling mass and he/she would be cooked down with the product and then canned. The Chicago Stockyards were a picnic area compaired to the inside of Armour's meat packing plant in Chicago...grooooooss. As you can tell I don't eat canned products,,,lol
Sorry didn't mean to re-educate you
Well ebay won out, let's see what happens
LOL No sale,,guess I may have to keep this one for myself.