GASOLINE SIGNS-c1910 GULF DOUBLED SIDED PORCELAIN 22x18

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GASOLINE SIGNS-c1910 GULF DOUBLED SIDED PORCELAIN 22x18

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Sold Date: 12/27/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Advertising

You are viewing a very rare unique piece of gasoline history , a c 1910, all original ,Gulf doubled sided porcelain flange filling station sign , as they were called at that early time, measures 22 ins wide by 18 ins tall with a 2 1/4 ins flange, has on both sides in large black lettering , " that good Gulf gasoline manufactured by Gulf refining company, Pittsburgh , Pa., , for sale , has 1 /4 in black porcelain border around entire sign, signs wtg is a little over 8 lbs, in excellant condition, has some touch up on flange corner, and back , see picture, and around edges, in main body has only touch up in bottom of n on one side, the rest of the main body is perfect, now on bottom has maker of sign , Ingram-Richardson Co, Beaver Falls, Pa,. now the story gets very interesting , our research has found , that oil was discovered in western Pennsylvannia in a town named Titusville, that Col Edwin L .drake , general agent of the Seneca oil Co , discovered oil on Aug 27, 1859, t were many oil company,s at this time , the oil industry owes much to Karl Benz , a German engineer , who developed the first gasoline powered motor in 1885, now Frank and Charles Duryea introduced American,s first gasoline powered motor vehicle in 1893, and bascically that,s what started the oil industry, as we know of it today, then Henry Ford introduced Mass production of cars, in 1903 , that year he sold 600 model A Fords for $850 each then in 1908 he manufactured , by assembly line method, more then 500,000 automobiles, by 1911, we had are these cars, and we needed "filling stations,", in 1901 several companies merged to form the Gulf REFINING CO, and in 1907 William Mellon took several others and formed what is now the Gulf OIL Corporation, , at this time John A, Tokheim of Cedar rapids , Iowa, invented the Tokheim Dome oil pump, in 1910, the first curside pumps with underground storage were introduced , this led to traffic congestion, all this led to the world,s first true gasoline station, called "FILLING STATIONS,", which was opened by the GULF OIL CORPORTION, on Baum Boulevard in Pittsburgh , Pa, on December 1913, now Gulf Refining Co was formed in 1901, and Gulf Oil corp, in 1907, that puts this sign right in that time period , ,this would be one of the very first porcelain sign to be put up in these new