culture Bidding Opens on Toronto’s Street Signs

And some of them have been signed by a "prominent Toronto personality." We'll give you one guess as to who that might have been.

SHOW CAPTION  ✉ Share on:  314801 This is a very beautiful sign, which is why bidding is up to $305.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signwinder https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signwinder-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signwinder.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signwinder.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signwinder/ signwinder 0 0 314791 This is at only $45 right now, but it is pretty, so we expect that number will grow.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signDan https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signDan-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signDan.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signDan.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signdan/ signdan 0 0 314790 A rare all-green sign.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signRH https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signRH-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signRH.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signRH.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signrh/ signrh 0 0 314789 A classic-looking sign; a well-known street. $225 is what that adds up to.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signqueen https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signqueen-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signqueen.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signqueen.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signqueen/ signqueen 0 0 314787 $45's worth of interest has been shown in the blue acorned Jeff, perhaps thanks to interest from one or a number of people named Jeff.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signjeff https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signjeff-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signjeff.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signjeff.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signjeff/ signjeff 0 0 314785 Sitting at a healthy $160.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signdundas https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signdundas-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signdundas.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signdundas.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signdundas/ signdundas 0 0 314783 One of the lonely, flat, blue, lowercase-lettered signs that has not yet drawn a bid.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signboar https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signboar-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signboar.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signboar.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signboar/ signboar 0 0

314782 This is an extremely beautiful sign. If we were willing to spend more than $260 on a sign (which is what it's currently going for), it might be this one.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signbloor https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signbloor-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signbloor.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signbloor.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signbloor/ signbloor 0 0 314792 Something about this sign feels different somehow—fancier and more exclusive.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signRFsig https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signRFsig-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signRFsig.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signRFsig.jpg 800 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signrfsig/ signrfsig 0 0 314786 Proof it was Mayor Rob Ford who autographed signs, and not someone who thought it would be easiest to forge the mayor's signature by writing large block letters.<br /> <br /> Photo from <a href="http://www.platinumliquidations.com/sections/street-signs.html#.U16AcK1dWG4" target="_blank">Platinum Liquidations</a>.<br /> signford https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signford-100x100.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signford.jpg https://torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/signford.jpg 896 600 https://torontoist.com/2014/04/bidding-opens-on-torontos-street-signs/slide/signford/ signford 0 0



The City of Toronto’s decommissioned street sign auction is now up and running. As of right now, you can visit the Platinum Liquidations Inc. website and browse through photos of street signs that have been retired after providing wayfinding service to our city. There are blue signs and white ones (and even a green one for good measure); ones with little acorns on top and ones without; ones that have as of yet seen no bids at all (many of those are the flat blue modern ones); and ones already drawing interest in the >$200 range. And then, because there is likely some kind of “Rob Ford’s City of Toronto Act” statute that demands it, there are a bunch of signs autographed by our very own mayor. Currently, the Queen Street East and Queen Street West signs not graced with a mayoral autograph are drawing higher bids.