Bathroom Tin Signs

Bathroom tin signs can add a touch of nostalgia, whimsy and humor to any home decor. Whether you are looking for bathroom tin signs or vintage tin signs, Bathroom Tin Signs.Com has just the bathroom tin sign you're looking for.

Bath items of all sorts have been the subject of bathroom tin signs. Soaps, tonics, bath salts and perfumes are just a few of the products and themes that have graced decorative bathroom tin signs. Bathroom tin signs depicting medicines, miracle elixirs, hair tonics and other personal care items, some serious, others using wit and humor can add a touch of nostalgia and whimsy to your bath or powder room.

Products too numerous to mention have been promoted with a style and wit that today seems all too nostalgic. Bathroom tin and metal signs were produced by the hundreds of thousands from the mid eighteen hundreds through the advent of television in the late nineteen forties. Most were painted or screen printed using enamel paint and many were given a porcelain overcoat to increase their durability. The irony of all this is that many vintage metal and bathroom tin signs outlived the very companies and products they were meant to promote.

This is not say that metal signs have completely disappeared from the landscape. Highways signs, street signs and metal signs of kinds are still with us, though most serve a more utilitarian purpose. The golden age of vintage metal signs has been maintained through reproductions and the zeal of collectors to preserve a piece of advertising and artistic history.

Aging metal and tin signs that have begun to rust should never be refinished. Vintage metal signs that are in good condition are highly prized by collectors. A little rust may devalue the sign just a bit, but the nostalgic value is priceless. When buying any type of antique or collectible signs, the well informed collector must be able to know the difference between vintage metal signs and reproductions. The rule is always buyer beware.