York & Pike Street / Covington, KY
The JR Sign Manufacturing Company was established in the mid to late 1800’s era located in Covington, KY. JR Sign Manufacturing Company began producing advertising signs for various companies and industries across the country. The sign that they produced were forged and hammered by hand and were often made of tin or zinc. They would usually mark their signs with the sign companies acronym J. R. Sign Mfg. Co. Covington, KY on the bottom left or right corner of the sign.
JR Sign Manufacturing Company had a few sign making competitors that made similar signs like F. Tuchfarber Company located in Chicago, IL, Kaufmann & Strauss located in New York, NY, and Donaldson Art Sign Company also located in Covington, KY
One of the major industries that J. R. Sign Mfg. Co. produced signs for was the brewing industry. Some of the clients that they manufactured and produced signs for were breweries like Reading, Barbey’s, Lauer, Deppen, J. A. Sprenger, Excelsior, Haefner, Wacker, Knapp, Kaier, Mount Carbon, Yuengling, Green Tree, and Anheuser-Busch just to name a few.
Below are a few examples of J. R. Sign Mfg. Co. Signs:
