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Need help matching a handpainted font.

raw191

New Member
Can you pro's tell me a font that would be close, or should I just trace it?

raw191
 

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Fred Weiss

Merchant Member
The "M"s and the "o"s are so different from eachother that I would definitely trace it to preserve the look of it.
 

Richard Flint

New Member
Attention to detail wasen't in that signwriters forte!

As for the font - don't think there's anything close to it, thank God! I would just trace it and hand paint it.
 

bob

It's better to have two hands than one glove.
That was hand painted by that same mythical nephew than can draw. As poor a job of hand lettering as I've seen lately.

Don't bother to trace this dreck, redraw it. You can see the flavor of it, now redraw it with a bit more attention to draftsmanship. Assuming that you, unlike the original artiste, can actually do hand lettering.
 

SignosaurusRex

Active Member
Trace it! On a side note, It almost looks like very, very early Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's work. I mean wayyyyyyyyy back, before "Rat Fink" and some of his other icons. Is that a name or initials down there in the corner I see? If so, what is it?
 

raw191

New Member
It's from the late 60's. The initials are "J-" and then a picture of a bird. So j-bird. It was off of a customer's late fathers car. Kind of neat.
 
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