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The items below are Lancaster County Pennsylvania Dutch
Hand Crafted 8" Diameter Hex
Signs. These signs are made of Double
Tempered Sign Board
and are decorated with a Silk Screen Process. Each order comes with a paper on the
of History Hex Signs, with detail instructions for indoor or outdoor use.
With each unique Hex Sign an explanation of it's meaning is
included.
Wood verses sign board
I have chosen craftsmen who use
sign board over those who make signs out of wood. Wood may warp, crack,
bleed and or fade colors over a long period of time, tempered sign
board is more stable and holds color longer.
These signs are ideal to give for a Get Well Arrangement, House Warming,
Wedding Shower, Birthday, Employee Recognition, Christmas Present or just
keep it
for yourself.
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Item Number
H1
Price: $3.95
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Irish
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8" Diameter )
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The most popular hex symbols is the Dutch
Irish, a traditional Irish good luck sign.
The design contains a large green shamrock
surrounded by 2 Distelfinks signifying a double
measure of good fortune. A red heart for
love, Trinity tulips for faith, hope, and charity
and a scalloped border for smooth sailing for
life. Overall this design proclaims good luck of
the Irish. |
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Item Number
H2
Price: $3.95
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Love and Romance
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8" Diameter )
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This design is typical of the
older geometric designs.
A large six petal rosette forms the
center.
The rosette is a basic “good
luck” symbol of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Red hearts are placed between the
rosette’s blue and gold petals.
The rosette ensures good luck and
success in love and romance.
The hearts, carefully placed in a
closed circle, provide endless enchantment
and happiness.
A decorative, boarder of triangles
completes the design, for smooth sailing in
life.
A life filled with love and romance
for all.
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Item Number
H4
Price: $3.95
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Unicorn
( 8" Diameter )
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This sign depicts two large, facing
unicorns. These wild, legendary "horse like"
animals had a horn in the center of their forehead
and a lions' tail. Unicorns symbolize piety and
virtue. Their close placement is designed to show
all God's creatures, even "wild animals," can live in peace and harmony. Love and a generous portion
of faith are added by the tulips..
Overall, this design provides piety, virtue, peace
and contentment. It was the design often placed on
the hope chests of young ladies. |
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Item Number
H5
Price: $3.95
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Double Distelfink
( 8" Diameter )
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Pennsylvania Dutch good luck and happiness bird,
the Distelfink, is shown. This sign features two
Distelfinks thereby "doubling" one's
good luck and happiness. This is especially
helpful during life's
trying times. A "double" heart for
much love and Trinity tulips
for faith, hope and charity also can be seen. A
scalloped border
for smooth sailing in life
completes
the design. Overall,
this design offers double
good
luck and double happiness for all. |
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Item Number
H6
Price: $3.95
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Single Distlefink
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8" Diameter )
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Is the good luck and happiness bird of the
Pennsylvania Dutch. Distelfink birds, often
very stylized, were used to decorate
marriage and birth certificates, bible
flyleaves and furniture. It was based on
our thistle “seed loving” Goldfinch. The
Distelfink is perched on a large heart,
adding love and tulips adding faith. This
design proclaims good luck, happiness and
good fortune |
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Item Number
H8
Price: $3.95
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Amish
Carriage
Horse
( Horse Barn Sign) (
8" Diameter )
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These horses played a major role in
early farm life. It is not surprising that the horse was one of symbols
selected to ensure protection for farm
animals and pets. It helped protect the animals against disease and lighting.
This design protects farm animals and
pets.
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Item Number
H14
Price: $3.95
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The Mighty Oak (
8" Diameter )
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Four large oak leaves in bright colors
burst from the center of this popular
design. The mighty oak tree is known
for strength, health in body and mind, long
life. The four oak leaf colors represent the
four seasons of life, spring, summer, fall
and winter. The scalloped boarder represents
smooth sailing throughout life. The overall
design conveys strength, good health and a
long life. |
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Item Number
H16
Price: $3.95
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Fertility (
8" Diameter )
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Another of the early geometric signs, it depicts a
large, eight-pointed star, usually blue. Tulips and
sheaves of wheat are nestled alternately between the
star's points. A smaller, eight-pointed star forms
the design center. The stars and wheat symbolize
abundance and goodwill; the tulips are for faith and
trust in mankind. Overall, this design offers
abundance and goodwill to all. Its striking
appearance and meaning made it one of the more
commonly used barn signs. |
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Item Number
H21
Price: $3.95
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Bless
This House (
8" Diameter )
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Like the Haus-Segen, this design features a large,
red "picture frame" heart proclaiming the house
blessing. Decorative German lettering was also used.
The Double Distelfink bird, perched on the heart,
provides the home with a generous measure of
happiness and good fortune. Flowers and greens
ensure the home is filled with life and vitality.
"Bless This House" is the major theme of this
design.
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Item Number
H22
Price: $3.95
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Daddy Of All Hexes (
8" Diameter )
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From an
un-known designer (Not Zook), is more colorful than
the Zook design. This design features a large,
multicolor 12 petal rosette. The rosette is another
of the traditional good luck symbols of the
Pennsylvania Dutch. Here, a good luck petal is
provided for each month to give a
Joyous Month for Each Month and
good luck all year. The designer says red for love,
blue for truth and protection, yellow symbolizing
life and the sun, and green for abundance, good
fortune and happiness. The center rosette; wards off
adversity and assures good luck. |
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Item Number
H23
Price:
$3.95
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Wilkum (
8" Diameter )
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A
well known design often seen on home entry ways. The large, stylized Pennsylvania Dutch
greeting, "Wilkum," extends a warm and friendly welcome to all.
Wishes
for a happy home and many friends is the meaning
of this sign. It features a large "welcome
greeting" (in German) to one and all. The
red, centrally placed heart symbolizes a loving
home and heart. Tulip "couples", show
the importance friends and family play by
showering the home with love and support. A
Distelfink bird provides an added measure of good
luck and happiness to all.
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Item Number
H28
Price: $3.95
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Friendship, Love, Marriage and Happiness
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8" Diameter )
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This
very striking design depicts two Distelfink birds warmly embracing to show their love and
friendship. Their "one" heart is laced with love for each other; the tulip adds
faith to show that this love will be forever everlasting. An endless ring of rain drops
showers them with life's full bounty. This popular symbol proclaims "love and
friendship" everlasting. |
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Item Number
H29
Price: $3.95
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Double
Welcome
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8" Diameter )
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A
well known design often seen on home entry ways. The large, stylized Pennsylvania Dutch
greeting, "Wilkum," extends a warm and friendly welcome to all.
Wishes
for a happy home and many friends is the meaning
of this sign. It features a large "welcome
greeting" (in German) to one and all. Tulip "couples", show
the importance friends and family play by
showering the home with love and support. The
double Distelfink bird provides double luck,
an added measure of good
luck and happiness to all.
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Item Number
H30
Price: $3.95
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Hospitality and Welcome
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8" Diameter )
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A large pineapple, ripe with
color, is the focal point of this design.
The pineapple symbolizes warmth and
hospitality to all mankind.
Overlooking the pineapple is a
cordial “Welcome”
greeting for all to see.
Leaves have been added to
symbolize unending life. This design
provides a warm and cordial welcome to all.
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Item Number
H31
Price: $3.95
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Bless This Child
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8" Diameter )
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This design has a large, heart lace edge. A Heart filled with love in the
center.
The child blessing, cradled by the
heart; is happily proclaimed for all to see. The endless heart border reflects
everlasting parental love.
This design is often personalized
with the child’s name within the heart.
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Item Number
H33
Price: $3.95
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Friendship and Understanding
(
8" Diameter )
(Blue Bird of
Happiness)
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The two Bluebirds of Happiness and
Understanding are also harbingers of Spring. The lush flowers and greenery
symbolize health and vitality. The "endless" outer ring offer
everlasting life. Overall, the Birds offer health and happiness to
all. The presence of two birds also suggests true happiness may
require others in your life.
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Item Number
H35
Price: $4.25
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Horse
and Buggy Hex
sign
"Limited
Edition"
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8" Diameter )
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The Horse and Buggy is a common site in the Lancaster County Pennsylvania
area. The enclosed carriage may only be occupied by married couples and
their family. Single couples must travel in an open buggy.
This sign features the bold names given to the towns in this area, Paradise,
Intercourse, Blue Ball, Bird In Hand and Strasburg are town names featured
in this colorful design.
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Item Number
H37
Price: $3.95
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CHRISTMAS
- HOLIDAY
( ONLY AVAILABLE AT ZOOK'S)
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CHRISTMAS - HOLIDAY HEX SIGN
UNIQUE, ONLY FROM - ZOOK'S
The design is a Partridge in a Pear Tree with a
circle of Holly, wishing all Peace - Love - and
Joy.
The perfect stocking stuffer or you may want to
give as a small gift to a teacher, postman, your
office colleagues, a good neighbor, any one you
want to give good wishes this holiday season !
Nice over your door as a welcome to your guests!
This also makes a good center piece for a wreath
as shown here.
WREATH NOT INCLUDED
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Item Number
Hex5
Price: $17.50
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Hex
Sign Special
(
8" Diameter )
Order any 5 Hex Signs
from this page for
$17.50
Make Note Of Your
Selections On The Order Form
or
In The Comment Section Of Your Pay Pal Payment
( A Minimum $2.25 Savings )
ONLY ONE HEX SIGN SPECIAL PER ORDER
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Item Number
H50
Price: $4.95
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Hex
signs and
other Barn Decorations
(Soft Cover 42 Page Book)
Why Hex
Signs? Pennsylvania Deutschland is an area located very roughly between
Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Populated by Germans, not
"Dutchmen", the land's unique barn decorations have long been a puzzle to
tourists and scholars. What are the geometric designs? How did they begin?
Why do they persist? It is part of the popular folklore that a barn with a
six-pointed star on it will be protected from lightning and that a white
line around a barn door will keep the devil out. Students of history will
claim that nonsense: the signs are merely decorations. Area residents offer
theories that the signs are "fire signs", that is, that they give notice
that the properties were covered by early insurance companies. Other signs
may be symbols of freedom and land ownership, or expressions of personal
creativity.
In the preparation of this book, the photographer and author traveled into
seven Pennsylvania counties and on into three counties in Virginia's
Shenandoah Valley and Pendleton County, West Virginia.
by Elmer J. Smith, Photographs by Mel Horst. |
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Soft Cove 42 Pages, 8-1/2" x 11"
CONTENTS
Ten Examples of Hex Signs
Bar Stars (Schtanna)
Double Star
Devil Doors and Witch Windows
Six Petal
Barn Designs as Religious Symbols
Signs of the Plain People
A Very Early Sign - And a Modern Copy
Folk Variations on a Theme
The Work of Alvin Hoffman
How to Make a Hex Sign
Berks Barn Decorator
Flower Stars (Blummesterne)
Influences on Barn Signs
Animal Signs
Farm Signs
Folk Artist James Hitchock
Hex - Yes, No, Maybe!
Hex Signs in Virginia
Contemporary Hex Signs
Footnotes and Ideas for Further Reading
Work of Harry Adams
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Work of
James Hitchock
Explanation of basic symbols.
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Item Number
H51
Price: $3.50
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Hex
signs and Their Meanings (Soft Cover 42 Page Book)
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Soft Cove 16 Pages, 8-1/2" x 11"
Color Illustrated
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Pennsylvania Deutschland is an area located
very roughly between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Populated by Germans, not "Dutchmen", the land's unique barn
decorations have long been a puzzle to tourists and scholars. Why
Hex Signs? What do the different colors mean? What
significance does each
symbol play? Read about Hex Sign Stories, do you need this claimed
Luck?
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Published by Garden Spot
Gifts - Gettysburg, PA 1996 |
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Work of
Walt Mauer
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