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This is a footboard of a vintage metal bed I bought at a tag sale. I got the headboard , footboard, 2 rails and the steel spring frame for 20.00. It was made in New York City by the Brooklyn Metal Bed Company. It's all steel and the graining and marbleing are hand done.
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Cut the legs off and it's a sign for your shop.
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Or maybe you can turn them upside down, and use the legs to hang it from a really great looking wrought iron hanger. The copy could read, "Real Wood Signs, Made Here".
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Louie - Thanks for sharing this old style of making an inexpensive substrate look expensive! I think there are still a one or two old timers around here that do hand painted woodgraining, but they are hard to find (don't advertise), so every once in a while I get someone ask me if I can get them vinyl with woodgrain on it, so they can apply it to the dash of their antique car (they think that would be cheaper than paying an old timer/artist to do it. I tell them to quit being a cheapskate, and do it right - pay the old timer to make it look correct - they'll get a beautiful job that CANNOT be duplicated with any vinyl product. Sometimes I get to hear that they found an old timer and had the woodgraining done by hand, and are now bragging about it.
-------------------- Kathy Weeks Weeks-End Signs & Graphics Lake Elmo, Minnesota Posts: 249 | From: Lake Elmo, Minnesota | Registered: Mar 2009
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Everyone, I did not apply the woodgrain to this piece. That is how I found it.I did some research on the company that made it and back in the day they would woodgrain these steel beds to make them look like the more expensive wood ones.
-------------------- Lou Pascuzzi www.economysigns.com Fine Hand Lettering since 1973 Danbury, Ct 203-748-4580 "IOAFS" Posts: 341 | From: Danbury, Ct | Registered: Feb 2000
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