{"product_id":"1940s-badger-army-ammunition-plant-sign-maximum-limits-safety","title":"1940s Badger Army Ammunition Plant Sign | Maximum Limits Safety","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere we have a factory safety sign that once hung on a wall telling grown men how many people were legally allowed to stand near an open explosive powder barrel, and the answer changed depending on whether that barrel was closed, blending, stopped, or wide open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMAXIMUM LIMITS, it announces in confident red stencil, then breaks the news down like a insurance actuary with a grudge. Barrel closed and blending: zero operators, zero transients, zero total, powder capacity 5100. Barrel closed and stopped: 4 operators, 2 transients, 6 total, capacity 5100. Barrel open: 4 operators, 2 transients, 6 total, capacity 7500. Someone sat down and worked out, with real specificity, how many human bodies were permitted in the blast radius of a powder barrel and under what conditions. That is not decorative signage. That is the result of an incident report, an insurance audit, or a very persuasive safety officer who had seen something go wrong before and did not intend to see it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe verso tells its own story. Property of Badger AAP is stenciled directly onto the canvas-backed board, tag BAAP 1016, which places this firmly at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, one of the largest propellant manufacturing facilities the country ever built, running from the Second World War through the Cold War producing rocket and gun propellant on a scale that required exactly this kind of blunt, tabulated, no-nonsense limit sign. Faint pencil circles and ghosted numeral impressions bleed through from the working side, along with old adhesive and pigment residue, the kind of wear that comes from decades on a factory wall doing its job and nobody looking at it twice until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is powder house signage, the linguistic residue of a barrel room where the math between open and closed decided how many people could stand nearby and live to read the next shift's sign. It is stark, it is procedural, and it is exactly the kind of object that turns an industrial building into an actual historical record. Painted board, hand stenciled, mounted on aged canvas backing, with honest edge wear, nail holes, and surface scuffing throughout consistent with real factory service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe historical factory sign measures 24\" x 14\". It’s got surface patina throughout the piece. The sign is structurally sound, ready to hang. Please see all pics as they are part of the description. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI ship FedEx to street addresses in the continental USA only (no PO Boxes). Free shipping on the rare historical sign. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoad’em up!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mad Van Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43186890670157,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0116\/3637\/5610\/files\/IMG_9570.jpg?v=1782880163","url":"https:\/\/madvanantiques.com\/products\/1940s-badger-army-ammunition-plant-sign-maximum-limits-safety","provider":"Mad Van Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}