This is one of the coolest things I've photographed with the wallet card. It is a metal sign advertising a 1963 real estate auction that is still attached to the wall of a Greenwich Village apartment building. It is a red metal sign that apparently has not moved even though the auction occurred 52 years ago. I guess the red sign blended with the red brick and nobody noticed it when it was time to take it down.
The sign is on the second story, which makes taking a wallet-card photo more difficult, and there is a shadow from the streetlight because it was very sunny the day I was able to check it out, so here is a clearer photo from
Ephemeral New York who originally discovered the sign:
The sign says:
PUBLIC AUCTION
by order of
CITY of NEW YORK
Statler Hilton Hotel - 7th Ave & 32nd St
Feb. 7, 1963 - 9:30 A.M.
Send for booklet
DEPT. OF REAL ESTATE
2 Lafayette Street N.Y. 9, N.Y.
by
HENRY BRADY
Auctioneers
37 Wall St., N.Y. 5, N.Y. - HA2-7962
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