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"Who knew ghost signs could be so fun?" asks @matratype in this lovely piece about collaboratively deciphering the text on one from Pune...
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Photo across a stretch of water showing a red brick industrial building of three floor with a peaked roof. Between the ground and first floor is a horizontal band of simple white painted block lettering that reads “Edward Fison Ltd”. The entire structure and the lettering are reflected in the water.
Edward Fison Ltd, Dock St, Ipswich.
This was once the home of the company that became Fisons Ltd. It doesn't explicitly state it, but the Wikipedia entry suggests that 'Edward Fison Ltd' could have been used in the 1920s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisons […]
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And now over to the Netherlands for the latest ghost sign from Amsterdam Typography:
Slijterij (liquor store) Orpheus on Daniël Stalpertstraat, at the junction with Ferdinand Bolstraat.
https://www.amsterdamtypography.nl/item/2435
#Ghostsigns #FadingAds #Amsterdam
Fading painted letters in a red-brown colour on a white brick wall. An initial uppercase G is clearly legible, but then the lowercase letters after that are less than clear.
Side wall of a building in sunlight. There are fading painted signs on the whitewashed bricks, with the previous photo being a detail from one of these. In this wider-angle photo there is a circle at the top with cursive lettering that reads 'Lisha' in yellow set within a black circle. Below, accompanying the turquoise Devanagari text, is a pictorial of a man in a vest.
Look at this lovely ghost sign from Pune, India, that @matratype sent me. Can you make out the text at the top below the 'Lisha' logo? Pooja notes that:
"The Devanagari text below says brassieres and banians (i.e. vests). And Lisha does appear to be a local […]
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Here's some #SuperbOwl action: a San Francisco curiosity from the @ghostsigns blog:
ghostsigns.co.uk/2024/07/the-mirrored-owl...
#Ghostsigns #SanFrancisco #Owl #Cigars #Signs #FadingAds
