Harley sign

[Chris Haynes]

This sign started out at $.99. Now up to $385.00. I doubt that this is a real sign. Looks to be a fantasy item to me. Has anybody ever seen a genuine old one like this?
40s HARLEY DAVIDSON Parts SERVI CAR Porcelain Sign - eBay (item 400104919148 end time Feb-28-10 18:00:49 PST)
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[c.o.]

That's a new one to me but I'm not a sign expert either... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...9148&viewitem=

[silentgreyfello]

There was a guy at Davenport that had 4 of these reproductions. He was asking $300 each. I bought one for $250. He sold them all as far as I know. This sure looks just like the one that I bought.

[Dave R]

Has a very modern "far eastern" lower quality look to it. Look at the black border to the left of the "H". The mis-registered "white show thru" areas above the "A"...below the "O"...etc.

So much for people cutting back in the bad economy... Unreal.

[Rubone]

Dave R,

Has a very modern "far eastern" lower quality look to it. Look at the black border to the left of the "H". The mis-registered "white show thru" areas above the "A"...below the "O"...etc.

Virtually all repros of this type are made right here in the good old USA not the 'Far East" as you term it. Just your homeboys screwing each other in pure American fashion!
Robbie

[Dave R]

Virtually all repros of this type are made right here in the good old USA not the 'Far East" as you term it. Just your homeboys screwing each other in pure American fashion!
Robbie

Point taken...you're probably right. My point was just that you're unlikely to see those types of obvious flaws in 30's-40's enamel signs.

My apologies in slandering our "far eastern" friends and Bankers.

[Rubone]

My apologies in slandering our "far eastern" friends and Bankers.
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Don't ever forget that it is the greed of the AMERICAN corporations that have created that!
As I said, the screwing begins at home!
Robbie

[silentgreyfello]

Don't ever forget that it is the greed of the AMERICAN corporations that have created that!
As I said, the screwing begins at home!
Robbie

C'mon, dude. No corporation holds a gun to your head and forces you to buy anything. If I were a stock holder/investor in a business, I would want a return on my investment, the more the better. Now, I am not saying they should do anything that is immoral, but make a profit? Heck yes. As for those "corperations", they provide jobs for many people, and I would suffice to say that we have it better here than most places in this world that rely on the government to control everything. Free enterprise works, just not for those that don't want to work.

[Chris Haynes]

Yup. After your alarm clock, made in China, goes off put on your boots made in China. Step into your underwear from Viet Nam, Pull on your Levis from Samoa. Select a shirt made in Bangladesh, India, or China. Get in your imported car, filled with petroleum from the far east and drive to work. What you say? You don't have a job anymore because your company just gave your job to a man in Chile.
Naw, big business isn't hurting anyone.

[flat-happy]

Free enterprise works, just not for those that don't want to work.(QUOTE)

the problem is free enterprise worked as long as it was responsible. responsibility was replaced with pure old fashioned GREED. so now free enterprise is irresponsible and it doesn't work anymore. when free enterprise was started a responsible businessman who cared about repeat customers bought something and marked it up 5 % or 10 % and was glad to see it go and the next time he ordered two and so on. now business wants to buy something and mark it up 100 % or more and deal with fewer customers. that way he can fire most of the warehouse staff and most of the office staff ad go on a long vacation. if free enterprise would just become responsible again it would still work no need for gov't to make it be that way. i still work on bikes for $25 an hour. the local harley shop is now at $84----oh well that's job security for me. oh yeah they have 70 year experience------if you add em all up----about 2-3 years apiece. i'm a charter member of their so called PHD program----piled high and deep----and got my 30 year paper in 1997. several of their "techs" call me for advise. keeps me laughing and laughing is good for the ticker

[silentgreyfello]

Yup. After your alarm clock, made in China, goes off put on your boots made in China. Step into your underwear from Viet Nam, Pull on your Levis from Samoa. Select a shirt made in Bangladesh, India, or China. Get in your imported car, filled with petroleum from the far east and drive to work. What you say? You don't have a job anymore because your company just gave your job to a man in Chile.
Naw, big business isn't hurting anyone.

Your point is well taken. However, I once worked for a company that had a union workforce that demanded so much that the company couldn't compete with non-union companies here in the US. It was either move out of town or go out of business. They moved to Mexico to survive, as the shareholders hadn't seen a return on their investment in 5 years. It sucked for all of us that worked there to start over, but all businesses HAVE to make money or sink. And no, I have never bought an imported vehicle except for my latest Chevy pickup from what is now Gov't Motors.