RAILWAY ADVERTISING ENAMELS

A brief History

With the building of Railway Stations there came an advertising opportunity with walls that could be decorated and also provide an income for the Railway Companies. These were either paper posters that could be replaced on a regular basis or enamel signs that were more permanent and were often very large to ensure that the waiting travellers could hardly miss seeing them.

 Advertising enamels were used throughout the Country particularly inside and outside of shops and many of these are very collectable today as they were often fairly small and so relatively easy to display. Very popular are are signs advertising Sprats products some of which are pictured below.

 This is another area of Railwayana Collecting where there are people who are just interested in Advertising enamels per say and others who collect signs that refer to their particular Collecting field such as Tobacciana. 

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