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Posted By: davidcycleback

It is my guess that the tin sign is not an exact copy of the original sign; that the
original art was modified and resized to fit the tin sign format. This would mean that
anything that looks like the tin sign is not an original, because that's not what the
original looked like.

As far as I know, none of these baseball tin signs makes an exact duplicate, or attempts
to make an exact duplicate, of an original advert. The tin sign designer modified, changed font,
resized and even added graphics. For one of the signs, the designer said he had to change
the original text font as there wasn't a modern equivalent available.