Florida Tampa Crosstown Expressway pirate Gaspar highway marker road sign 12x12 for Sale

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Florida Tampa Crosstown Expressway pirate Gaspar highway marker road sign 12x12 For Sale

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Florida Tampa Crosstown Expressway pirate Gaspar highway marker road sign 12x12:
$98.10

Tampa Crosstown Expressway highway sign.

Up for sale today is this Tampa Crosstown Expressway sign. Made to the exact standard that was posted all along the route. This particular sign was the result of a 1975 contest to find the logo for the soon-to-be-opened expressway, which only had one entry, and is this very design. The pirate in the middle of the sign is a subject of Florida lore named Jose Gaspar, who, according to legend, sailed his pirate ship all over the Gulf of Mexico from his base in southwest Florida. This design was phased out in the early 2000s, but it can live on forever in your space with your purchase of this elegant sign.

An original of these is very rare to find scrapped. Most of them have vanished from the back roads of Florida many years ago, replaced with the modern issue. So here is your chance to own an excellent display piece, without paying an arm and a leg on the collector\'s market.

The sign is 12 by 12 inches, and weighs 3 lb. 11 oz.

This is a high quality, heavy steel sign. Accept no imitations that may be one-third this price, but are one-tenth the quality. No cheap tin to be found here, with the wrong fonts, layouts, size, shape, or any other manner of embarrassing imperfection. This one will make even the most discerning collector stick their nose into the sign, as it looks that good from that close!

Please do see my other sales for quality Florida Interstate and US route markers!

Would you like a number not seen here? Or perhaps a different style? I can of course make these signs with any route number of your choice, and not just this style, but older and newer ones, and even the classic mileage, direction, and city limit guide signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.

\"Life doesn\'t happen along the interstates. It\'s against the law.\" —Charles Kuralt

Figure about 5 lb. 11 oz. for shipping, packed carefully and mailed from zip code 61833. Our signs are only printed when you buy them. Allow about 10 business days for manufacturing, in addition to the usual delivery time.

The watermark and bear logo in the design preview will not appear on the actual sign. We have begun adding a watermark because we have had problems with other companies copying our artwork to make lesser-quality imitations. You will only get this high level of quality in design and materials from Signs by Jake.

Thank you for your purchase!