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Kansas Santa Fe Trail highway marker road sign Conestoga wagon pioneer 1956

$ 62.83

Availability: 52 in stock
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  • Condition: New

    Description

    Kansas Santa Fe Trail route marker.
    Up for sale today is this Kansas Santa Fe Trail sign. Made to the exact state standards as used between 1956 and 1978 along this historic highway.  The Santa Fe Trail was established as a trade route between the United States and Mexico in 1821.  for a few years, the trail passed through the Republic of Texas (nowadays it cuts off the tiniest corner of the panhandle), and by 1848 it was entirely within the United States.  the trail was designated as a historic route in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico in the 1940s and is signed to the present day along with US Highway 56.  this exact sign is the 1956 specification that is the same size as the smaller state route sunflower markers.
    The sign is flat printed with completely accurate layout and fonts.  It weighs about 5 pounds, 6 ounces, and is the correct size: 15 by 15 inches.
    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!
    I can of course make these signs with
    any route number 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 city limit guide signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.
    "Life doesn't happen along the interstates. It's against the law." - Charles Kuralt
    Figure about 7 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.
    Thank you for your purchase!