Mark Wetherbee

Here’s a pretty good picture of his signature on an amazon book Which is very similar to the one on your proofs - I think it would be able to get authenticated by an art expert but this should give you some avenues of research.

I think it reads R Peak (Robert or Bob) and going by His bio and some of his art online, I would very much assume it was his... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Peak

Here’s one of those “chintzy seventy’s keychains” just for conversation... got to wonder who done it? Found by a friend for my Pierce, but I was shocked to find that someone made this using an original fob!

Truck clearance light is my opinion too...

Before moving south I volunteered at the Owls Head Transportation Museum for a few hours each week. We did everything from moving displays to engine work, to driving visitors around in a Model T... but not one time was anyone there too busy to describe something to a visitor. If I couldn’t answer a question I’d find someone who would, it was fun! I wore old coveralls and many times people would be in the shop area and wanted a picture of a true “grease monkey” - once there was a group from Japan and it took several minutes of halted English to understand they didn’t know if pictures were allowed... A great experience sharing a love of old cars...

I bought an original Pierce Arrow watch fob on eBay in July, was reluctantly refunded for it after a couple months but it still has not been delivered presumably because of COVID issues. I kept track of the seller as I will pay him if it does arrive, but I think it’s lost forever in that vacuum.

Looks like a great museum, hopefully I will have an opportunity to see it sometime. As for the missing radiator caps, there was a Pierce Arrow mascot stolen during Hershey last year, I can’t imagine how anyone had the opportunity with the number of people there but they got away with it... sad to say but I won’t leave my car out of sight for a minute without removing its cap now.

I have had no issues bumping up my ads in the memorabilia section, but I only do it every few weeks or longer, I think it’s better than putting in a new ad, having several identical ones floating around, then two years after it’s sold someone finds the one ad where you didn’t write it had been sold and gets frustrated that you advertised something you didn’t have... been there, he weren’t happy with me.

Years ago I had a pair of 1924 Mass dealer plates I picked up that were still in the original wax envelope, they put a piece of card-paper Between the plates and it also left a similar impression in the paint. I too believe it looks original, and in new condition which is astounding... GR8-PLT as our state says about the vanities.

Studebaker wood wheels from 28-9 would be my guess.

Take a look half way down the pictures here: Those are what every Model A Ford came with, some had a square hole for adjusting the brakes and some didn’t

I think Bob’s tag is either for an inventory or equipment numbering system of some kind. Here’s a very similar tag that was to denote the content of a Gaylord container on the assembly line. E.L.W stood for Electric Light and Wiring, I am assuming ZE-4 is a plant location, and C3-57 would be the first four of the assembly number of the contents or what they made where C3 denotes 1963 model year. The weight listed usually denotes the container empty weight so you could quickly weigh the contents for a count. This was removed from a container that had been damaged to a point where Ford didn’t want it back while I was working for a company that was running off some custom equipment for them in the 1980’s. It’s been my keychain ever since...

If you polish too much it could be mistaken for one of the newer repops showing up on eBay, that darker patina is a badge of honor and cannot be easily faked. As for a value, that gets pretty subjective but my opinion is around the $125 range. Putting it with a nice moto-meter and Correct period cap would increase its desirability to a collector I would think.

The Moto-meter in Bill’s book has an American Austin faceplate, but I can guarantee that dog bone cap would not fit the Austin radiator... Really nice ornament even for an “inexpensive accessory” as Bill put it. I agree with the Lindbergh connection as to the dating of it.

The last company I worked for had this issue in production because we needed locknuts due to vibration in use. Tried a lot of different things and the final solution was to use brass nyloc nuts on all stainless screws. In the end it was less expensive than moly or any other wax style anti galling coating because of the labor of painting the threads. I still have some of that wax in my garage which is great for driving wood screws in.

Those are the type of farm I’d love to dig around the scrap piles in especially considering the cars...

Love the “mascot” on the hood🤣🤣

In case someone needs them just search and they should come right up. One is the side mount locking cap...

Mike, was that one on display at the Boothbay Village Railway in Maine for some time? I remember seeing one there and being very impressed with it’s size...

Now that’s funny... reminds me of

Let’s see, there’s a Nickel plated brass tube Bridgeport with a small Ford script on the bottom of the foot pad (which was checkered on top) that seems to be after the two tube style and before the next version which is a brass tube style with two Ford scripts on top of the foot pad, then a steel tube with two Ford scripts on top, then one that was so late in T production it’s considered a Model A pump which has one Ford script on top and either a T part number on the bottom or an A part number... As far as dating any of these, GOOD LUCK because even the “experts“ disagree on the years and all of them were supplied under the same part number... oh, and even the patent number is fairly useless as far as when it would be supplied as all its good for is when some parts of it were patented.

I pulled these out for a similar post a while back, but here I am around 1967 - I was son #3 and the one that finally put dad in a sedan. Of course the “salmon” color (aka pink) looks a bit less masculine than I would have chosen I remember that car above many others since...

I was at an auction in Missouri at the beginning of October and bought a substantial (non automotive) piece, because of that item I skipped out of bidding early on another item I was interested in only to find they had no buyer premium or state taxes when it was an on-site sale! In the end I figured that I “saved” around $700 because of it but by then it was too late... I should have asked before the sale but 15% is so common now I just assumed it would be charged.

Notice that pin in the wing tip also show it to be a 2 piece mascot.

I agree that book is worth buying if you are researching any of the Ford badges, including the fantasy ones. The scarcer Ford badges bring big money and there’s a few good reproduction pieces because of it. It is very much buyer beware on any of these items! I just did a completed auction list on eBay, these are the only two original security badges I found that sold in the last 3 months. There’s probably been 20+ fantasy badges listed in the same time...