[AT] Help Needed in Finding Safety Decal
william.neff.powell at comcast.net
william.neff.powell at comcast.net
Tue Jul 10 03:24:57 PDT 2007
Just a thought, but how about scanning it into the computer and cleaning it up with a photo editing program like photoshop or similar...
I'll bet a store like staples might sell decal paper that you could print it on?
Regards,
Will
Pottstown, PA
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Chuck Bealke" <bealke at airmail.net>
> Y'all,
>
> A lady I know not sent me the following email and permission (when I suggested)
> to ask your help in locating a generic safety decal. She wrote:
>
> -----------------------Email for Help In Locating Decal--------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> I saw your webpage and was wondering if you had any information that
> might be helpful for me. I am trying to restore a 1953 International
> Super H tractor and it has a "Danger - Think Safety" decal placed by
> the Farm Bureau Federation on it and was wondering if you had any idea
> where I could get an original copy of that decal. I contacted the Farm
> Bureau but they do not archive those types of things. Thanks for any
> help you might have.
>
> anne.grabenstetter at gmail.com
>
>
> -----------------------------------end of her
> email--------------------------------------
>
> I posted her picture of the original decal (now on her Farmall
> Super H) at
>
> http://web2.airmail.net/bealke/FB_decal.jpg
>
> Please contact Anne directly if you can help her locate the usable new decal
> that she seeks. As you can see, it is a timeless and useful reminder
> evidently released in the 50s or slightly before by the Farm Bureau.
> It sounds like a rare bird, but it sure would be cool if the list could help her
> out.
> Perhaps one of you know someone who collects or saves miscellaneous old.
> non-brand specific decals - they sure seem scarcer than the equip. makers
> decals.
>
> Betcha some of you have wished you had a decal of a favorite implement dealer
> that closed its doors (likely along with the brand sold) years ago. They would
> make a nice touch for certain loving restorations partly driven by fond personal
> memories.
>
> On the subject of memories, I've found a great, new little book about growing up
> on Iowa farms during the depression - Little Heathens by Mildred Armstong
> Kalish. It brings back character types, attitudes, scenes and expressions I
> grew up with (luckily) in the Midwest. Mildred has an eye like a camera lens
> and memory to match. The first chapter and book reviews are posted on the web in
> easy reach of Google (or contact me offline if you want locations for same). She
> writes of colorful people rather than tractors, but both subjects can be great
> fun to revisit when they were the vivid stuff of our formative years.
>
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