Ontario Queen Elizabeth Way highway route marker road sign Canada 1950 ER blue

Description

Ontario Queen Elizabeth Way sign.
Up for sale today is this Queen Elizabeth Way sign.  The Queen Elizabeth Way connects Buffalo, New York to Toronto, Ontario via Niagara Falls and Hamilton.  It was opened in 1939, named after Elizabeth II's mother.  This sign is made to the exact 1950 provincial standard that specified "ER" for Elizabeth Regina.  the first batch of signs were white, like the King's Highway signs, but the color was quickly changed to black on yellow and then a few years later to blue on yellow.  the "ER" style was used until 1955 when the signs were changed to say QEW.
The sign is 12 x 19 3/4 inches and weighs a solid 5 pounds, 8 ounces, as it is constructed out of durable, heavy steel, for an appearance that is nearly indistinguishable from the old porcelain signs that were originally used back in the day.
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 layout 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 7 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.
Thank you for your purchase!