California state highway 17 CSAA road sign auto club AAA diamond 1929 bear

Description

California state highway 17 bear sign
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Up for sale today is this California state highway 17 prototype sign. Based on a set of prototypes made in 1929 by the Auto Club of Southern California, this one is made to conform to the California State Auto Association physical layout instead.  please see the accompanying photo of two prototypes on the famous ACSC cast-iron stands.
this particular sign is made to the 1919 specification of the California State Auto Association, with the logo at the bottom (as well as the association name at the sides) and with sharp corners.  later generations changed to rounded corners for safety, in case an unexpected kinetic event caused the darn thing to come flying through the windshield.
I can of course make this sign with any route number, or even as a county route as those prototypes exist as well!
The sign is 18 1/2 inches on a side (approximately 29 inches across the long axis, and 23 up and down the short axis), and weighs 8 pounds, 12 ounces.   The original of these signs exists in a private collection and is not going anywhere.  This is a high quality, heavy steel remake that has the same high gloss and is indistinguishable from the original early 1910s porcelain 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 verbiage 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 10 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.
Thank you for your purchase!