salvaged vintage original porcelain shoe advertising sign SELZ NY New York find

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So here is a very rare salvaged vintage original porcelain shoe advertising sign SELZNY New York find. Porcelain sign is in aged used wavy ripped as is condition see pics measuring about 6 by 60. Yes we will ship. Check out our other great original signs listed here on eBay et al .
Selz remained a major footwear company throughout the 1920s, before the Great Depression crippled its sales and forced its factories to close. This entry is part of the Encyclopedia's Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000) that was prepared by Mark R. Wilson, with additional contributions from Stephen R. Porter and Janice L. Reiff.
Originally a Chicago firm, George Ludlow moved his shoe factory to Elgin through an offer from the Elgin Improvement Company. The offer was for a building and the land that it sat on. Ludlow was promised 20 percent interest in the building and property for every consecutive year that he employed 350 workers.
Employment would reach 370 by 1891. Employees worked a 10 hour day, six days a week. By 1896, the plant began making women's shoes under contract for Selz-Schwab & Company of Chicago. By the 1920’s, the plant would produce 2,000 pairs of women's shoes daily.
While shoes are no longer produced in this building, it still stands today. The Selz-Schwab Shoe Factory closed in 1929, but the building would later become the home of a manufacturer of women's' dresses, a neon sign factory, an indoor miniature golf course and finally one of the headquarters for the State of Illinois highway sign shops. Six painters created the route signs for the primary roads in eight Illinois counties. Today, The Shoe Factory is a series of condominiums.