Posted in Dublin, Ghost Signs, tagged Baxendale, Capel Street on May 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I saw this ad on AbeBooks a 1927 catalogue: Baxendale’s Pocket Catalogue for the Plumbing and Sanitary Trades – Revised List No. 3017 – Baxendale & Co. Ltd. Manufacturers, Merchants, and Shippers to the Plumbing, Building, Decorating, and Electrical Trades. Capel Street, Dublin. Yours for just over a hundred euro, if you’ve a few nicker looking for an outlet. It reminded me of Baxendale’s ghost sign in Capel Street. Love that ampersand.
Baxendale & Co Ltd
Posted in Dublin, Ghost Signs, tagged Bank of Ireland, O'Connell Street, Smiles Dental on May 23, 2014| 2 Comments »
Devastatingly ugly work. Signs for Smiles Dental riveted to the old Bank of Ireland in O’Connell Street. The bank’s motto, Bona Fides Reipublicae Stabilitas (good faith is the stability of the state), seen on the swag over the entrance, used to be on the Irish banknotes.
Bona Fides Reipublicae Stabilitas, and some wormy-looking hair.
Smiles Dental / Bank of Ireland, O’Connell Street
Posted in Dublin, Ghost Signs on May 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I love the lettering on this old sign in East Wall Road. It looks as if it had been doodled with a biro during a training session.
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