Early 20th Century Color Lithographed Tin Advertising Sign for Heidland's Gold Medal Bread

Item Details

An early 20th-century tin advertising sign for Heidland’s Gold Medal Bread. The black tin piece includes scrolled edges to each corner. It features the text ‘We Sell Heidland’s Gold Medal Bread’ around an oval lithographed image of a woman in green smiling as she holds a bouquet of red flowers. The sign is fitted with a hanging wire to the top.

Condition

- surface wear with paint loss present throughout image, with heavier wear to edges of oval print; scratches, foxing and craquelure to printed surface, with two larger scratches to woman’s face; fading to print and text; creasing to tin at lower right; overall surface wear to sign with age.

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Item #

17LEX112-006