Spalding Base Ball Sign

[jerseygary]

Overall the type layout on the sign doesn't look right to me. I recreate advertising graphics for movies and television shows and spend many hours trying to get things like this to look as accurate to the time period as possible. The Spalding in the center looks well done but the other copy especially the "E. 17th" looks poorly executed especially the spacing in between the letters of "SPORTING GOODS" and BASE BALLS". And thinking about it, why would someone have the street name on their window instead of the building number? Something isn't right. I would have had to have rock-solid photographic evidence that this was a real sign before I bid on it, otherwise I'm putting it down to someone who salvaged a bunch of old transom windows and went to town with the model paint in the basement.