WANTED Black cat cigarettes sign

Long shot but I’m after a Black cat cigarettes Genuine enamel sign .. what can I prise out of your hands ????

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225489841160?hash=item34803dec08:g:i~EAAOSw8rhkCeyY

 

Yeah just a bit better condition . It’s to go on my downstairs toilet wall ..

 

£245.00 for that?
How much is a near perfect H.O Wills sign with a printing mistake in the enamel worth?
As I have one around the same size, that was rejected from the sign making factory, because of a design error. Extremely rare…

 

What was the printing error?

If it’s a picture of a black car dragging in a cigarettes you could kill two birds with one stone.

 

How about this one?

 

The printing error is the top right angles of the fag packet. Never seen another sign like this in such good condition, and I have never seen anther sign with a printing error.
Worth a few quid then?

 

They were originally hand made

I don’t think they were printed
What do you mean Nipper

 

Ok,Painted wrong, then.
Still in bloody good condition with a printing/painting error…I haven’t seen one anywhere as good.
The ones I have seen like this, are shot, and people want loads for them.

 

Did you pay more than or less than market value when you bought it?

 

Just googled them as a company, interesting past our Tabacco companies had.

 

It was my fathers.
He got it when he was a scrap dealer, in the early ‘70’s.
Don’t know how he got it. I think he was doing work, taking out old machinery at H.O Wills in Bristol.I’ve seen worse ones like this for over £600.

 

Might the printing error be Wills's? Discuss.

 

It's funny what people will pay, but I guess its a dwindling resource.

 

Where?

 

No. H.O. Wills was the company name. If you asked who the cigarettes belonged to, it would be Wills’s, as that’s who owned the cigarettes. If YOU bought the cigarettes, then YOU would own them, so then they would be andyv’s. My dads name was Ronald. So the sign was Ronald’s, before it was mine.
Did you go to school much, or were you skiving down the field smoking fags that were once H.O.Wills’s, before you bought them?
Discuss….

 

As for the black cat sign… I may know of one.
Give me a bit of time.

 

It's difficult to make this a fun topic, @snotty would do better, but the packet says W.D. and H.O. Wills' Gold Flake. The rule I got taught was if it's a word ending in s then it's just a following apostrophe, no extra s, but it's pronounced Willses. My surname ends in s, so this has come up a time or two.

When I smoked as a lad it was Player's Weights for me. We called them Heavies.