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Vintage Nevada "Ghost Town" Road Sign from Luning, Nevada - California State Automobile Association

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Vintage Nevada  Ghost Town  Road Sign from Luning, Nevada - California State Automobile Association
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2,100.00USD+ (462.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2019 Oct 07 @ 08:41UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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This vintage, yellow and blue, diamond California State Automobile Association guide sign gives the mileage and directional arrows for Hawthorne, Carson City, Mina, Tonopah. It had to have come from just west of the Junction of US Hwy 95 and what is now NV-361 outside of Luning, Nevada. It has over a dozen bullet holes, where rust and time are visisble, but the paint is still bright yellow and the sign clearly legible. This is a classic, vintage, one-of-a-kind Nevada road sign. Mina was a railroad town founded in 1905 that had less than 155 population in 2010. Luning was founded in 1881 as a stagecoach station by the name of "Deep Wells" but changed its name when the railroad arrived c1900 in honor of Nicholas Luning, a bondholder of the Carson and Colorado Railroad. Today Luning is a rest stop with a historical marker that most Nevadans consider a bonofide Silver State Ghost Town. In 2005 Luning's population was 85 and dropping. This sign must have been erected between 1918, when the CSAA began putting code numbers on the back of each sign to identify the sign location on a county map, and 1928 when the CSAA adopted the Federal Road Sign Plan and began to replace yellow and blue diamond guide signs with black and white rectangular signs. After 1928 yellow diamond signs were retained for warning signs only. Because the yellow and blue guide signs were replaced with the white, rectangular signs, few of these style guide signs have survived. We could not find another sign like in a thorough online search and believe this to be a very rare find. A must have for Nevadiana collectors, railroad town collectors, and ghost town collectors. City: State: Date: c1918-1928