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Original Harley Warrick Mail Pouch Sign

  Lot # 028
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Very Good see description
Size
9" x 16"
Location
Basement Family Room
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Lot # 028
System ID # 4378359
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Description

Original Hand Painted Mail Pouch Sign on Wood by Legendary Barn Painter, Harley Warrick. Paint is still bright. Minor wear as can be seen in photographs.

Harley Warrick was born on October 5, 1924 in Londonberry Ohio where his family had a dairy farm. He was an American barn painter, best known for his work painting Mail Pouch Tobacco Advertising on barns. He and other barn painters traveled America heartland for months at a time to cover barns with black, white and yellow signs reading Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco. He spent 55 years painting or retouching more than 20,000 barns. he painted without using a single guide. The Highway Beautification Act of 1965, which prohibited advertising billboards within 660 feet (200 m) of an interstate highway, effectively ended the era of painting the sides of barns for advertising.  Though nearly all other sign painters went out of business, Warrick continued to work for the Swisher International Group, owner of Mail Pouch Tobacco, painting barns along lesser roads and highways until his retirement in 1993. Ironically, the Mail Pouch signs were designated as National Historic Landmarks and were exempted from regulations against tobacco advertising and Warrick continued to paint. During his retirement, Harley created birdhouses and mailboxes bearing the "Mail Pouch" logo and was compiling his memoirs for a book. He came out of retirement to touch up a barn he painted in Barkcamp State Park near his home and planned to re-touch a barn in Barnesville, Ohio he painted in the 1980s. He passed in 2000.