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VISIT BARRETT-JACKSON.COM FOR THE COMPLETE DOCKET 179Brinkman, Barrett-Jackson’s Automobilia Director, in addition to his love for cars, Lange also had a love for automobilia and decorated his entire dealership with authentic tin, porcelain and neon signs. “His dealership was quite impressive with the way it was decorated,” Brinkman said. “What no one realized is that he also had his own compound, home and winery with numerous storage buildings that were filled from floor to ceiling with automobilia and rare vintage car parts.” It took Brinkman and his team over a week to go through all the buildings and sort through all the pieces for the automobilia auction. “Lange had literally stacks of signs, 30-40 at a time,” Brinkman said. “It was something we had never seen before, and the majority of these pieces hadn’t seen the light of day for 15 to 25 years.” The Mark Lange Estate Collection is now headed to the 2024 Scottsdale Automobilia Auction, where it will be sold with No Reserve Some of the amazing pieces set to cross the block in Scottsdale include several dealership signs. Among the most notable is a gorgeous 1940s Lincoln Mercury Automobiles double-sided neon porcelain dealership sign (Lot #9490.3), an extremely rare circa 1940s-50s Plymouth Automobiles single-sided neon porcelain dealership sign (Lot #9495.1) with day-one gloss and colors and a stupendous 1953 Ford Jubilee doublesided neon porcelain dealership sign (Lot #9491) that has undergone professional restoration, mainly to the perimeter edge. The 1953 Ford Jubilee sign is considered one of the most desirable of period neon signs. Oil and gas companies are also represented in the collection with an outstanding circa 1940s-50s Mobil Oil double-sided neon porcelain rotating Pegasus service station sign (Lot #9489.4) and a rare new-old-stock 1971 Cougar Oil of Alabama doublesided porcelain service station sign (Lot #9470) that was found in the original box and never displayed. Considered by many to be the finest example of its kind, it is one of only several survivors known and was