Old Buick Shop Rag

[NEW1966]

I found this years ago in a closed Buick Dealership.  Don't know what year it is, but it's real nice for it's age. 

[Guest]

That is a really cool piece of shop memorabilia!

[wayne sheldon]

To think. Many years ago, hundreds of Buick dealers across the nation if not around the world had bunches of those rags. Buick probably made hundreds of thousands of the things. I wonder how few of them survive today? I love to see this kind of thing!

[Mark Shaw]

My father reproduced these rags over 30 years ago. 

I still have a few Chevrolet packages left, but since he had a Buick, he sold or gave away all the Buick rags to his buddies.

[wayne sheldon]

4 hours ago, Mark Shaw said:

My father reproduced these rags over 30 years ago. 

I still have a few Chevrolet packages left, but since he had a Buick, he sold or gave away all the Buick rags to his buddies.

 

I figured that there was a good chance this may have been a reproduction. Or maybe not. The "Buick" logo is the one used by Buick throughout the 1920s and to a lesser extent through the 1930s. It is unlikely that Buick would have used such a logo after that. Items like this were "reproduced" in the hobby a few decades ago. 

Whether Buick had made shop rags like this during the 1920s? I do not know. I do know that some shop rags were made with other car company's names on them during the 1910s and 1920s. I recall seeing era photos of racing teams working in the pit areas of racing events, and a ew monogramed shop rags being visible. But maybe those were just for those racing events?

 

And I still really like seeing this one!

 

And, if it is a hobby repro? I wonder how it found its way into a closed Buick dealership?