Uncommon Wasatch Gasoline Signal Sells for $324,000 at Morphy Auctions

Collectors have a gasoline with classic petroliana indicators throughout three-day, 1,600-lot, Bobby Knudsen Jr. sale realizing $8.1 million.

Collectors had a gasoline at Morphy’s Automobilia, Petroliana & Railroadiana Auction March 21-23 that includes Half II of the spectacular Bobby Knudsen Jr. gasoline and oil promoting assortment, with the 4 high sellers realizing practically $1.1 million.

The three-day occasion, containing 1,600 heaps from the Knudsen assortment, plus different choose consignments, realized greater than $8.1 million (together with purchaser’s premiums).

The highest lot of the three-day Morphy Auctions sale was this beautiful and uncommon Wasatch Gasoline 48-inch-diameter porcelain service station signal, which bought for $324,000 towards an estimate of $75,000-$150,000.

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Native American iconography dominated the highest 10 sellers, with an especially uncommon and visually compelling Wasatch Gasoline (Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah) double-sided porcelain service station signal promoting for $324,000, a file for this signal. Pre-sale estimate for the 48-inch diameter signal was $75,000-$150,000.

Mohawk Gasoline porcelain service station signal with Native American « down feather » graphic, bought for $312,000 towards an estimate of $100,000-$200,000.

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Following intently behind the blue-ribbon Wasatch signal was a pre-1925 manufacturing Mohawk Gasoline “down feather” double-sided porcelain service station signal, which bought for $312,000. Certainly one of solely 4 identified examples of the earliest porcelain promoting utilized by the historic San Francisco model, pre-sale estimate for the signal was $100,000-$200,000.