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Vintage French blue/white enamel house numbers?


It's my wife's birthday soon. I want to get her an old French enamel house number that is her date of birth - five digits. There is someone on eBay who has thousands of old ones - but she has told me that genuine French ones hardly ever go beyond three digits. Is she right? If not, then where should I look? If I can't find a French one then are there any countries other than US that might have such high numbers in enamel on steel? Help! I have a little under three weeks (21 Feb).

Thanks for helpful advice to date - Canada and split numbers seems best answer so far - I've checked some of the manufacturers/shops and all they seem to have is repro at several times French prices.

You can order a custom-made one there: http://www.house-signs-co.com/en/index.p...
but they say the manufacturing time is 2 weeks so with international delivery it might be tight. You can always e-mail them and ask or look for something similar made in the US.

They don't do 5-digit though (we don't have streets that long!) so you should stick to the month and day and do a 3-digit one. Or order a street sign instead with her name.

PS: it's a sweet and fun gift idea, by the way!

yes she's right, it's very seldom to have big house numbers in french streets.
Try in the Netherlands maybe ?

you can find it in Canada and if you want it in french look at ebay from Quebec,Montreal

Try getting two or three sets of two:

02 05 08 (using today's date) Then have them put together on a plaque or in a custom made iron fram, or something like that.

You can go to the website mentioned below.
They won't have that number it in stock, so you'll have to make a special order. Specify that you want a French-looking font.

http://www.thefrenchnumber.com/specialno...

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