[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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