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Desolation Canyon guide sign.

Up for sale today is this dual logo Desolation Canyon guide sign, noting the site where Death Valley was given its name by some stranded prospectors in 1849. Made to the exact standards used in 1949 by the Auto Club of Southern California and the National Park Service. this guide sign was posted for many years on Badwater Road, at the turnoff to the canyon.

The original of this guide sign, complete with the logo of the Automobile Club of Southern California, would cost many thousands of dollars - if it even survives! Only historic photos of it are known. this is a faithful remake rescaled from the original 36x21 size to 15x8.75 inches. otherwise, it is exactly as the original, with the correct layout, fonts and colors. it weighs about 3 pounds, 5 ounces.

This is a high quality, heavy steel sign. Accept no imitations that may be one-third this price, but are one-tenth the quality. No cheap tin to be found here, with the wrong fonts, layouts, size, shape, or any other manner of embarrassing imperfection. This one will make even the most discerning collector stick their nose into the sign, as it looks that good from that close!

Would you like a number not seen here? Or perhaps a different style? I can of course make these signs with any city name of your choice, and not just this style, but older and newer ones, and even the classic mileage, direction, and route shield signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.

Figure about 5 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.

Thank you for your purchase!