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If you are looking for something special, and effective as lettering for the lobby of your office, then sign foam letters are a great option for you. These sign letters are available in various forms such as metal, plastic and painted foam letters.

Painted foam letters are created by sandwiching structural foam in between surfaces that are smooth and hard and then pressing in place. The sides of these letters are painted the same matte or semi gloss color as its face.

Plastic laminated foam letters are available in 19 colors and are created by laminating it to structural foam that is sandwiched between smooth surfaces that are also hard. This plastic is colored with a high gloss or matte sheen.

Metal laminated foam letters are formed by laminating gold, silver or copper to structural foam that is sandwiched between hard and smooth surfaces. This metal laminate may be polished to a shine or brushed matte. All these three types of letters are an inch thick and are mounted using pressure sensitive adhesive.

Different adhesion methods

The pressure sensitive adhesive used for installing these sign letters is called repositionable adhesive and this allows you to remove and then at any time re-install your letters as required.

However, if you want something for permanent adhesion, use double sided tape. When you use this tape for adhesion, the wall or surface that you can apply the letters to may damage when you peel the letters off.

You can also install sign foam letters using pin mount installation which involves sticking a flat head type tack or even a pin onto the backs of the letters. This method is best for installing letters on a tack board or for tradeshow displays but not for any drywall surfaces.

With Velcro installation, you have to use the hook and loop of Velcro. Mount the hook on each letter and the loop on the surface you intend to install the letters with adhesive. This way, you can remove and re-install the letters whenever you want to. To ensure that you accurately install letters, it would be better for you to use a spacing tape or pounce pattern for all installation methods.

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Antique Advertisement Signs Will Rise In Value

Antique Advertising Signs May Increase in Rate

As we move into the future, more people look at antiques, exclusively antique advertising signs. One can study our culture from what we left behind, we can learn a great deal by studying the things our grandparents left behind. These include architecture, literature, and of course antique advertising signs.

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No one really knows when the first vintage advertising sign was produced, but by the heart of the nineteenth century they were everywhere. Most things werent mass produced in those days, and the advertising from this period shows it. A straightforward advertisement for shaving powder that promises to reduce cuts, or an advertisement for a magical cure all elixir can be worth a good bit of cash.

Stores of this period needed to advertise what goods they carried, and by placing metal signs on the front of their stores they had a way to advertise that would reach anyone walking by, including those who couldnt read or right. After all, if the sign had a picture of a tomato on it, it was a pretty good bet that the store that it hung on sold tomatoes.

Henry Ford is best recognized for producing automobiles, but perhaps his greatest contribution to society is the creation of the assembly line. The assembly line was first used to produce Ford automobiles, but it worked so well that others adopted it to produce other things. This, along with trucks making the transportation of goods faster and cheaper allowed for companies to grow to unprecedented size. When companies were able to put up for sale there goods from coast to coast, they rushed to get as much advertising out as possible. One form of this advertising came in metal signs.

In times of trouble when the future seems vague people often look to the past and long for a simpler and more secure time. Nostalgia will always proliferate and spread during times of trouble, and people will look for tangible things of the past to hold on to. There is no relic that speaks of times past more so than advertising signs. As the future remains vague, these valuable antiques are sure to go up in importance because they provide a tangible connection to the past.

It would be my prognostication that the antique signs that will go up the most in importance will be the ones pertaining to current companies in trouble, like the automakers. People like to identify themselves with name brands, and they will rush to get vintage signs of company brands that they are worried won't be around much longer.

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Even if vintage advertising signs didnt have a potential to be valuable in the near future, they still provide us with a link to our past. They also look pretty cool hanging on the wall above the bookshelf.

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