The Pittsburgh Connection

Published

7 years ago

May 3, 2017

Grant Freking Signs of the Times May 2017 Issue

One of the latest additions to the American Sign Museum is a sampling of 1910’s and 1920’s celluloid signs from a Pittsburgh-area auction. The American Sign Museum recently won the bidding for this signage, which will not require any restoration. According to founder Tod Swormstedt, the trademarked Crystaloid and Crystoglas pieces were manufactured by Whitehead & Hoag, formerly of Newark, NJ.

Jeff Lang (Olde Lang Signs; Pittsburgh), picked up the signs from the auction, and Andrew Paul (Run Rabbit Gilding; Pittsburgh), who serendipitously happened to be visiting Cincinnati a week after the auction, delivered the items to the museum.

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