Antique advertising signs have become one of the hottest categories in the collectibles market, attracting everyone from casual decorators to serious investors. Originally created to promote everyday ...
As a longtime collector and dealer of antique advertisements and signs—what I like to call “rusty gold”—I can tell you there’s more to them than just the name of an old business. As a child growing up ...
Would you spend $189,750 on an Orange Crush sign? A man in Arizona did last month at an auction held by Richmond Auctions in Greenville. It is, of course, not your standard soft drink sign. It is lit ...
Treasure hunting often turns up bottles and scraps, but this time the creek gave something far stranger: an antique telegraph sign. The words, though faded, still echoed of a time when fortunes ...
An Upstate auction house has set another world record with the sale of a valuable neon sign from the 1950s. In February, Richmond Auctions in Greenville says their Orange Crush sign sold for $189,750, ...
Retail Watch: Find unpredictable treasures as antique store reopens in Allentown ...