MAIL
POUCH BARN
The Old Road Series - Plate I |
Release
Date: September 1973
Edition Size: 500 S/N - Issue Price: $15.00
Edition Size: 2000 S/O - Issue Price $10.00
Print Size: 20 x 24
Secondary Market Value
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"I've
seen that barn somewhere before," you say. Well, perhaps you have.
Mail Pouch
Tobacco advertised on barn sides throughout 15 states. The signs became
familiar sights along our nation's highways during the first half of the
twentieth century.
Lanesville,
Indiana, is home to this 1904 German bank barn built on the site of its
burned predecessor along Highway 62. For fifty-eight years it remained
unadorned. Then, in November 1963, barn painter Harley Warrick transformed
it into an area "landmark".
With the
coming of the Interstate Highway System and the regulations regarding
advertisements along our roadways, scenes like MAIL POUCH BARN
will soon be gone. Harley was the last Mail Pouch barn painter in America,
but retired in 1991. It now falls to the artists to preserve this slice
of Americana.
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RAY
DAY
ray@rayday.com
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