California CSAA Gold Discovered Here highway sign Sutter's Mill 49 AAA 1929 21"

Description

Gold Discovered Here guide sign.
Up for sale today is this Gold Discovered Here by John Marshall guide sign. Made to the exact standards as used from 1929 to 1934 by the California State Auto Association.  this guide sign was posted for many years at Sutter's Mill, where indeed gold was discovered by John Marshall in 1848, sparking off the California Gold Rush of 1849-50.
The original of this guide sign, complete with the logo of the California State Auto Association, would cost many thousands of dollars - if it even survives!  Only historic photos of it are known.  this is a faithful remake scaled down proportionally from the original sign to 21 x 14 inches, manufactured on heavy steel with the correct layout, fonts and colors.  it weighs about 7 pounds, 8 ounces.  (if you are looking for the full size 36 x 24 inch version of this sign, then please see my other auctions.)
This is a high quality, heavy steel sign. Accept no imitations that may be one-third this price, but are one-tenth the quality. No cheap tin to be found here, with the wrong fonts, layouts, size, shape, or any other manner of embarrassing imperfection. This one will make even the most discerning collector stick their nose into the sign, as it looks that good from that close!
Would you like a number not seen here? Or perhaps a different style? I can of course make these signs with
any city name of your choice,
and not just this style, but others with the reflectors, the embossed style that other states used, and even the classic mileage, direction, and route shield signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.
Figure about 9 pounds for shipping, packed carefully and mailed from zip code 61833.
Thank you for your purchase!