Museum Display Fiberglass Dinosaur Baby

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To elaborate on my "new members" post, I enjoy researching older Sinclair dinosaur items. The early, realistic fiberglass Sinclair dinosaur statue has me stumped though, as to its age and manufacturer.

When did Sinclair make (or more likely have made for them) the very first generation of fiberglass dinosaurs that they displayed at service stations in the early s and perhaps earlier?

These are few and far between. I have one, and have talked to the present owners of several others. Like me, they've found no makers marks and the original owners are unknown, dead or have memory issues. All they have in common is that they are known to have come from Sinclair originally.

The earliest photograph of one with a confirmed time frame is from the grand opening of a Wilmington, IL, station in . I have a picture of one in a Chicago parade dated and Wes Maxwell has posted photos of one from . Sinclair seems to have phased them out in favor of a more friendly looking design starting in .

Does anyone remember seeing one of these before ?

As to manufacturers, I can tell you who didn't make them:

Jonas Studios - they made the -65 World's Fair Dinoland life-size dinosaurs, but a member of the family confirms Jonas didn't make this earlier one.

International Fiberglass - They made the common, friendlier, more cartoonish 12' and 8' fiberglass dinosaurs we still see here and there from about until they went out of business in the mid s. They also made these for customers other than Sinclair. I interviewed their former owner in the early s and he said he didn't know who made the earlier Sinclair dinosaur. (Sinclair made molds off an International Fiberglass dinosaur and began reproducing them in in the late s; they recently introduced a modified design with the head facing the other way.)

FAST - Fiberglass Animals Symbols and Trademarks of Sparta, WI. They and their corporate predecessors made fiberglass animals for decades, but a long-time manager says they didn't make the early Sinclair model.

So, none of the above three prominent makers of fiberglass animals in the s made this Sinclair Brontosaurus. Would anyone know who did, and when?

(A previous owner of the one I have painted black lines just behind its head; I've painted those out already.)
OP Member Joined: Posts: 7Likes: 1 Wes, your 8' dinosaur was made by International Fiberglass, which was marketing them in a brochure as "Baby Dinosaur" alongside the more familiar 12' "King Dinosaur" which Sinclair bought so many of. Both models were sold to many clients though Sinclair was the biggest customer for the large one.

International Fiberglass made both models in any color a customer wanted and in a couple finishes; Sinclair seems to have been fond of green in the "FiberGLO" finish which looked like it metal fleck or glitter in it. International Fiberglass may have produced slight variations in order to accommodate a customer's local sign ordnances where height was concerned as I've seen both the 8' and 12' versions with slightly shorter legs that appear to have been molded that way.

I've seen the 8' Baby Dinosaur in multiple colors. I have one in glossy white and Jackie Knott told me one he used to have was originally pink. I've seen a picture of a glittery gold-colored one. The only 8' model I ever saw at a Sinclair station was green.

International Fiberglass went out of business in the mid-s but several companies have made versions based on the 8' and 12' dinosaurs introduced by the company.
Last edited by AceJackalope; 01:51 AM. Reason: brevity OP Member Joined: Posts: 7Likes: 1 Nicole, they made them in colors other than green because Sinclair was only one of many customers, albeit eventually the largest, at least for the 12' ones. I'm not sure that Sinclair as a corporation bought any of the 8' model, though at least one of the dealers eventually had one.

Your question brings an interesting realization. Before the dominance of the Sinclair Dino, I don't think green was the default color for a dinosaur. The Charles Knight and Rudolph Zallinger murals, which served as templates for most toys and book illustrations of the 50s and 60s, portrayed dinosaurs in variations of grayish blue and dull reddish brown much more than green.

So, Sinclair may have cemented green dinosaurs into the public consciousness just as Coca-Cola cemented red for Santa.

I'd be curious to know from long-time Sinclair collectors: when did the company first use green for a dinosaur? In the standardization of logos and fonts, green was the color of Dino, but was it so before that?