Help with large JD building sign

Dave4199 · May 15, 2015

In cleaning out mt fathers garage, I found a unique building sign. It has been up there since the late 1960's and I remember when he got it. Dad worked for The JD warehouse in Newton,Ia for 20 + years. When they closed it down, the silhouette sing on the building was give to him if he would remove it. It is a black silhouette of the 4 legged leaping deer. Approx 7 X 14. In pieces that are machined to fit together and rust free. I also gave all the mounts fo attaching to the building. Help. I can not find another one like it.

Billy NY · May 15, 2015

Unique collector item, great history, hopefully you have a place to hand and enjoy it, never seen anything like it. Before our last barn was demolished, I had scoured the inside of it and within a wall cavity, I found a sign for an old brewery in the nearby city. That brewery operated for 100 years and was defunct in the 50's I believe. The sign is a 2 piece rectangular one, that hung from chains, and I believe it to be a one of. Its just barely still legible, so I know its old, block 2D lettering with gold leaf like lettering. Says the name of the brewery and the name of the city on it. I've got some other great items from that same brewery as our place had a cooler room and was a distributorship at one time, had a cooler room door, my father had turned it into an office, myself and friends got locked in there one time like the brady bunch episode, but we got off easy, there was a rotary dial phone on his desk inside ! Remember that well.

Really neat piece, nice story behind it, I personally enjoy things like that since I was a kid just starting out collecting antiques, thanks for sharing photos of it with us !!!

Dave4199 · May 15, 2015

Thanks! Any idea how to find out a value? Not sure I will sell, but would love some idea, thoughts?

Blackhole49 · May 15, 2015

Best way to find the actual value is to put it up for bid with no reserve.

Meangreen · May 15, 2015

This is only my guess but maybe $400 to $800 bucks because of its size (could be high, could be low). It looks like something that could easily be replicated with a plasma cutter. If you had a picture of it hanging on the original dealership it might help the value, but since it really isn't anything Deere licensed it's nothing more than the thousands of other homemade items with a deere logo on it.

Now if you are lucky enough to find a few other guys with the same thing, then you may have something worth a lot more. Proof that it was issued by Deere is the big selling point.

Billy NY · May 15, 2015

One of, probably what a buyer would pay. Was it a custom build for just that location or was it something JD was involved with like a dealer sign that was commonly used by dealers? Given the logo aspect of it, there may be more to that and if documented somehow, that could increase value, but from what you have said and what we can see, might just be what someone will pay. One of a kind are hard to value because you can't find another that sold, even then, buyers market usually. If it was licensed or JD had something to do with it, and that can be backed up with documentation, I would believe or or think the value could be significantly more. High end of it would be similar to NOS or excellent condition signage and it seems those command quite a bit just because of the brand. No expert here, but have collected a long time. Cripes, just a PAM clock with a JD, Ford or similar logo goes for hundreds if not more, and there's nothing to them, just that logo/clock face with the brand. Signage can list for quite a bit sometimes.

flembo · May 15, 2015

Watch American pickers on the history channel, they pay good money for signs. I dug one up while putting in grass, I saw something sticking up a little I dug it out and it was a Devoe Paints sign in good shape, I have it on the wall of my garage.

dr sportster · May 15, 2015

Very cool sign !

Jim in N.M. · May 15, 2015

Shocks, I'd pay just for a paper pattern of it !! Just trace the outer edge on paper. I'd cut one out of plywood just to hang on my barn !! Jim in N.M.

Tom OConnor · May 15, 2015

Dave,

I would get in touch with someone like Jeff Polk and talk to him. If that was made by John
Deere it would be extremely valuable. Also Jack Cherry from the Two-Cylinder Club would
know if John Deere ever made these as a promotional item.

shunkfarm · May 15, 2015

John Deere Co. Might be of the opinion that it belongs to them! :shock:

(Joke)

Dave4199 · May 15, 2015

I'll see if I can get that done for u

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