Nose plates

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About Nose plates

The nose shield / boom is a traditional form of advertising. It is an advertising sign that is anchored perpendicular to the wall of a restaurant or a transaction, and as a nose protrudes from the face from the house into the street. It is considered particularly suited to make passersby aware of a business.

Today is also information signs such as authorities, boards or safety signs, mounted perpendicular to the wall are referred to as a nose Signs / boom.

In German-speaking nose Signs / interpreters were often made by blacksmiths with considerable ambition, craft iron. Will be advertised on the trade or the offer of a merchant, not with text but with symbols - for example, guild signs - attention.

Taverns with traditional names such as "The Deer", "The Bear" or "Zur Post" did, and also make a visual representation of their name attention.

Even in the time that the enamel signs were modern, continued to nose Signs / boom used as an advertising medium.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasenschild