PBA Galleries

Collection of 9 advertising and warning signs, and one flour bag all printed on cloth. The lot includes:

• 2 different signs for the Vermont Farm Machine Co. Cream Separators both approximately 14x16”
• 1 sign, Wanted 10,000 Calf Skins and 1000 Beef hides, Proctorsville VT, 11x17”
• 1 Notice To Employees concerning State Compensation Comm. West Virginia, 10x13”, somewhat browned.
• Notice restricting people from getting sawdust from this pile, NP probably VT, 9x13”
• Notice for No Trespassing, Shooting or Fishing, dated 1909, printed in Boston, 10x15”
• 9x12" "Warning: It is Unlawful for Any Person to Leave any Offensive or Unsightly Substance or any Paper or any Waste Matter From any Fruit About These Grounds. Per Order State Board of Health, Charles Duncan, Secretary." Code of 4946 printed at bottom left corner.
• Large 18x25” flour sack imprinted with Gains & Crosby’s Flour, Brattleboro, VT with image of an old train; a large sign printed in black and yellow for the patent medicine company Dr. J.H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier an Unfailing Remedy For Weakness, Nervous Debility and Disorders of the Stomach and Digestive Organs, 18x48”, printed by Voll & Wolf Adv. Co St. Louis, a great display piece. 

The late Calvin Otto was interested and collected all forms of printing, including these items. Provenance, The Calvin Otto Collection.