Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums Showcase and Stories, Petroliana BOTW: "BUYS OF THE WEEK!" - JULY 15th - 21st 2013

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New Quaker State Rack this week.. Looking for more cans to fill it!!

Here was some of mine. Pick up a nice shade and a few Atlas racks from a old Standard/Chevron jobber.

Anyone know what brand that ligth is offhand? I though Revere but couldnt find a name.

Here's my favorite piece from this week. Here's a link to the rest of my buys.

http://www.oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=449253#Post449253

This was going to be a BOTW but a combination of poor packing by the seller and shipping gorillas did it in. Ive been known to glue lenses back together but ths is beyond me! I guess everyone's Shell globes just got a fraction of a percent rarer.

Here is my botw it's a Bennett 371 with 4 original add glasses. Keep them coming everyone!

Wow, must sent globe in a brown paper bag! Not cool.

MY BOTW

Wow that flange is way cool!!!!

that shell globe looks like it fell out of a airplane..

Ok, I'm officially out of room and my shop is beginning to look like a hoarder's hovel.

I joked about taping the box back up and relisting it on ebay as a 1000 peice Shell 3d puzzle.........

The mechanic's 'step stool' came to me from Nebraska, but was used in a gas station near my hometown. Central Electric later became Central Battery and was a Cities Service station run by a man named Charlie Bell who could fix anything put before him. He also had a farm amd a stash of cars I was privileged enough to visit when I was in high school. Sadly, by the time I returned years later Charlie and the cars were history.

That Murphy sign is awesome.....and painting a car with a brush..nice!

Dave, it must be all those want adds you keep clogging up my craigslist searches with haha

Stay out of Mississippi cyberspace!! : )

I think that Murphy sign made me wet myself.

So that's the secret! Good finds Dave!

Dave the hoarding looks great, The more the better ! That's a shame what happened to griffens shell globe , another price of history gone forever.

1940 tire sign

Picked these up a few weeks ago just never got around to posting the pics.

I picked up this Red Crown Gasoline sign today. 30 inch DSP. The one side I have not cleaned yet. The second side was all covered in spots, paint or cement or?? Took all afternoon, a couple SOS pads and a few beers to get the spots off. One of the bigger spots took over 600 "Back and forths" with an SOS pad to get it off. (Yes, I counted) As far as I can tell, the signs is from Standard of Ohio, which later became Sohio. When Standard was broke up, they became Standard of Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Nebraska, California, Kentucky and Louisiana, plus possibly some I missed. I think the sign dates from 1928-1930 but I may be wrong as this sign doesn't have a Dinosaur on it...

It still has some rust staining to it. At first I thought of hitting it with some Muriatic acid to clean it but the more I scrubbed on it, the better it looks. Great color/ gloss and very heavy shelving. I do not want to jack it up so I will probably keep trying the elbow grease to get the rust off off

[quote=Wes Maxwel a few beers (Yes, I counted) [/quote]

sign is cleaning up nice..

Love the Murphy sign. I would like to see it once it's cleaned up a bit, if it does

I was able to pick up 6 of these early Texaco port Arthur grease cans.

Maybe they came in this crate!

All looks good. Red Crown is sharp.

Lucky to get these.
Old wooden box-hand written Winnipeg spelt wrong on one side, correct on the other!

more

Some of the stuff I got this week

Some more

Couple more pics.

we picked up a couple globes this week

American in a gill body


Amoco in a gill body

NICE !!!

I bought this nice Whitaker cables display from Dennis Leith! Since I have a bathroom in my shop, I put a Whitaker Cabinet up to hold supplies!
These 2 Whitaker signs add a lot to the look in the room and really add to the cabinet!
Thanks a lot Dennis!

Thanks to my buddy's John Jarvis and Wes (Thermactor) my embossed Barnsball Oil Bottles showed up in Louisville last night and i cleaned them up this morning. Thanks again guys!

Picked this up at the local Buick Dealership. Had been hanging in there shop for as long as they've been there...
You may see it for sale soon....???

Ditto that.......

Went to look at an ranch today for sale walked around the back barn and found this sticking in the dirt, had the real estate agent call the owner to do a deal on the sign but not the ranch

Wow we are seeing some stellar sign cleaning results today. Great grizzly graphic.
Fred

Radio Oil (ROCO) globe; Winnipeg MB Oil and Gas Company-original holder, one lens only. From an OGer in town-thanks

Buffalo Oil from Prairie Cities Oil. Fantasy piece, limited run, very well done porcelain flange

The Beatles did Rubber Soul, Goodyear...the rubber sole. Found these Neolite rubber "thin heel lifts" in the porcelain tea cups in an antique shop. And thought what the heck might as well buy them

...is it marked as such?

yes on the flange

Dave, was Central Battery in Hattiesburg?

Yes, on East Pine. I think is the street-at the end of the street was the old Cadillac dealership and West Brothers (later Roadway) Trucking. Across from Central Battery was Komp Equipment.

I remember very well Central Battery For decades they kept the Cities Service green exterior. Everything about Central Battery screamed "service station". They had several pumps in a recessed fueling bay.

Unfortunately, Central Battery was torn down, as well as several other buildings on Pine St.

Exactly. It was almost like a dark hole. Mr. Charlie Bell could fix anything. My friend's father owned N&H electronics, which was about 2 doors down. This was in the 70's. The old Barq's distribution center was in the same block-they still had 56 Ford delivery trucks that had been mothballed for later use. They looked brand new in the late 60's and early 70's..