Posted 2 years ago
CamandCelia
(5 items)
1920s Wrap-around Coke sign. This two-piece sign measures 58 x 35 inches in total. I am told that it is in two pieces so it could wrap around the corner of a building. The right-hand end measures 12 x 35, while the left end is 46 x 35. I have never seen a sign split like this and only rarely have I seen one that is a single piece. Years ago there was a cardboard sign similar to this on this site but it was a one-piece.
More likely two signs pieced together. Frankensign. Still cool.
Yes, we considered that it could be two separate signs. However, I have seen the two sections as one large sign, same dimensions as mine, a few years ago. There was also one on the CW site which showed the same sign only in cardboard with a metal frame. The two ends where the signs would have been joined are professionally crimped and edged. Not something somebody would have done in their garage, that's for sure. I believe it was at one of the Coca-Cola collectors shows around Toronto several years ago that one of the experts there called it a corner sign. It wasn't a term I came up with myself. It is quite heavy gauge metal. Not a thin tin sheet.
I'm sure you've noticed the uneven cut/crimp on the left side border of the bottle piece. You're missing about 1/2 the green border there. Someone may have cut it to fit on the corner of a building, but it wasn't manufactured that way. Here's the French version, same size. (Yours is a great sign! :0)
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/126846433_large-vintage-french-coca-cola-tin-sign