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Old Seiberling Tine sign...found in an old farm property and don't know much about the company. Would love to know more about it.
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So it just got really interesting! Did he have a tire sign or did somebody make this up?
Franklin Augustus “Frank” Seiberling, also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and founder. He is most famous for co-founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Company in 1921.
From working at his fathers business...
In 1898, Seiberling was jobless, nearing forty years old, with a wife and three children. He learned of the availability of an old strawboard factory in East Akron, which he purchased, together with the 7 acres (28,000 m2) it stood on, for $13,500.
In partnership with his brother C.W. Seiberling, he decided to open a rubber company, picked a name, and was selling stock. The company would be named for Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of vulcanization, who had died penniless almost forty years before.
Seiberling spent two years attending Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, before joining the J.F. Seiberling Company, his father's farm machinery manufacturing business, working there as secretary and treasurer. His father, John Seiberling, founder of that Akron, Ohio company, invented one of the first reaping machines. While working for the company, Seiberling invented a twine binder that tied grain bundles with a bow knot.
I found the answer to my question. So he did have a tire company other than Goodyear.
Seiberling Tire's advertising in the 1940s through the 1950s was famous for the brand's slogan of "A name you can trust in Rubber."
He served as the company's president(Goodyear)for 15 years when, in 1921 the company was refinanced and reorganized. Frank Seiberling and his brother Charles resigned from the company and founded a rubber and tire company bearing his name.
I am in no way a sign experts and I can only judge what I see in the pictures you provided.
But looking at your sign the damage in the lower left corner bothers me. It seems as if something had scratched the metal that bad it would continue into the main field?
Thanks for the response, you are much more of an expert than I. I'm trying to find this sign online but all the signs I'm seeing are different than this one. I will continue looking.
Reread your comments. Yes the damage in the corner is bad, but I don't think I will sell it. It will continue to hang on this property for another lifetime.
I was trying to say that the patina looks purposeful. I have lots of items that I've collected that don't have much monetary value but I still enjoy as much as the expensive stuff.