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Posted: 15 Feb 2024

Taken: 26 Sep 2023

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HWW (Happy Wednesday Wall) HWW (Happy Wednesday Wall)

Ghost Signs Ghost Signs

Interesting signs, signage Interesting signs, signage

Keywords

camden •
sores •
bates's •
sidmouth street •
king's •
ghostsign •
WC1 •
cures •
United Kingdom •
London •
UK •
England •
ghost sign •
salve •
palimpsest •
bloomsbury •
wounds •
regent square •

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IMG 0912-001-Ghostsign Palimpsest

IMG 0912-001-Ghostsign Palimpsest
Two signs, one painted over the other, fading at different rates. King's and Bates's were owned by the same company. One sign reads:

KING'S
Tartaric
Fruit Salts
for
Gout and
Rheumatism

BATES'S
Salve
Cures
Wounds
& Sores

The other says (more faded at the top left due to how the sun hits it):

THE
RENOWNED
SALVE
for WOUNDS & SORES
OF ALL KINDS.
80 YEARS
_______
ALSO FOR
KING'S
CITRATE OF MAGNESIA
INVENTED IN 1844
The ORIGINAL SAFEST
& BEST

Credit to Ghost Signs: A London Story by Sam Roberts for deciphering this.

Here's a photo of the same ghostsign that I took back in 2007:
Cures Wounds & Sores

raingirl, ScribeGirl have particularly liked this photo

Comments
 raingirl
raingirl club
I love this type of past advertising. It becomes its own artwork.

seen and enjoyed in 'Faded advertising - witnesses of the past'
9 months ago.
 MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)
MJ Maccardini (trail… club
Thanks, raingirl. I have a passion for ghostsigns and photograph them often. I particularly like the ones like this that are palimpsests.
9 months ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Well seen and captured.
hWW
6 weeks ago.

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