I.B.S. Merseyside Ltd

I.B.S. Merseyside Ltd, 72 Waterloo Road (between Regent Street and Porter Street), Liverpool L3, 2008 • Interesting hand lettering with Ws like upside-down Ms and an 18th-century look. Google reckons that I.B.S. stands, ambitiously, for International Buying Selling, although the firm’s own website doesn’t mention it. The top branch has been demolished, the bottom branch still looks just the same.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2015/11/10
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2008, Liverpool, Shopfront Elegy

amateur signwriting, furniture, handmade, secondhand, warehouse

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