RARE SHAMROCK GASOLINE AND OIL PORCELAIN SIGN

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RARE SHAMROCK GASOLINE AND OIL PORCELAIN SIGN :
$7500.00

RARE 1930\'s SHAMROCK DIE CUTPORCELAIN SIGN WITH FRAME. THE MEASUREMENTS OF JUST THE SIGN MEASURES 68\" TALL BY 69 1/4\" WIDE. THE FRAME IS 1/4\" THICK. HANGING BRACKETS ARE ABOUT 6\" TALL. THIS SIGN WAS MADE BY BURDICK SIGN COMPANY SHOWN IN PICTURE #9.
THE HOME MADE POLE IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SALE.

PICTURES 1 & 2 WERE TAKEN BEFORE I CLEANED THE SIGN

PICTURES 3 & 4 WERE TAKEN AFTER I CLEANED THE SIGN

PICTURES 5 SHOWS ONE BULLET HIT SIDE 1 AND PICTURE 6 SHOWS THE SAME BULLET HIT ON SIDE 2

PICTURE 7 SHOWS THE FRAME IS BENT BUT NOT THE SIGN ITSELF FOR IT IS FLEXIBLE

PICTURES 8 & 9SHOWS WHERE SOME REPAIR WORK HAS BEEN DONE TO THE FRAME, IT APPEARS ASTHOUGHWELDING SLAGHIT THE SHAMROCKS STEM AND THERE IS SOME SMALL PIN HEAD PITTING.

PICTURES 10 & 11 SHOW AREAS OF SMALL PIN HEAD TYPE PITTING, FROM WELDING SLAGFROM WHENTHE BRACKETS WERE REWELDED.

THIS SIGN CAN BE SEEN IN PERSON APRIL 24TH THRU 27TH AT THE PATE SWAP MEET AT THETEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY.

SECTION 1A, 11TH ST. BETWEEN FOYT AND ANDRETTI, SPACES 405-423.

The Shamrock Oil and Gas Company, was founded on August 9, 1929, by John Sheerin, who named the company for a symbol of his native Ireland. The company was headquartered in Amarillo and financed by the Fownes family of Pennsylvania. Its first refinery was built in 1933 at Sunray, in Moore County, Texas, and that same year the company opened its \"first gas station\" also at Sunray.