$18,572.50: Buys you a personal check signed by Henry Ford

"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond) 01/02/2016 at 20:24 • Filed to: None

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June, 1896. Henry ford signed a check to pay the E.J. Vance Box Company for the wood used to build a frame and dashboard for his very first automobile that he drove around the streets of Detroit later that year. 1896 mind you! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! It comes with a few of his first books (1st editions) plus photos and documents by family members of authenticity for this stuff that the Ford museum doesn’t even have. Or, so says the advert.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Grindintosecond 01/02/2016 at 20:40

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cp!

Goggles Pizzano > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/02/2016 at 20:58

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Yep, his signature has been on almost every car.

DrJohannVegas > Goggles Pizzano 01/02/2016 at 23:50

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The Blue Oval is really a commercialized Spencerian script, like the classic Coke logo. (That was the form of script taught in schools in the 19th century, but the logo has a formal, professional version thereof.) It almost got replaced during the 60s in a fit of futurism.

(Edit: It should also be noted that it was an executive/engineer who pushed the script logo, so it definitely wasn’t Henry Ford’s signature, as it wasn’t even his design. Also, a cool comparison is here: http://jalopnik.com/5453846/hank-t… )