The terracotta letters above the door of the former Wright Specialty Leather Co., at 8300 Manchester Road, went unclaimed when the building was demolished in July — some are now on Craigslist.
The seller says he came by them legally — bought from the demolition company. He didn’t want his name published.
“The story as I heard it, the people that were related to the people that built the building, wanted them, and I don’t know if they hired somebody, or the demolition company hired somebody to take them down — whoever that guy was broke a bunch of them, and all of the small ones got broken or lost or whatever,” he said Monday on the phone.
“Two of the big letters disappeared, so I don’t know if the construction guys got them or what, but I only got three of them. So I sold one, I got one that’s broken and I kept one.”
See the listing on Craigslist. The listing was brought to the attention of 40 South by Twitter user @PubPolHist.
Cool that somebody saved something. But those letters look heavy.
After I read here that Ed was going to get the letters I saw these in the back of the gentleman’s truck and figured something didn’t go as planned. I can imagine it wasn’t an easy task getting those down intact.
Shouldn’t these go to Ed Wright?
As I understand it Ed Wright Jr requested the sign (letters), and they were to go to him. It is a shame we have such terrible communications. Now there is nothing there to claim but junk.