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#452000 Thu Aug 01 2013 03:37 AM
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For the month of August we will be showing Lion Oil Co. Next month we are moving to the west coast so you guys out there get ready as I will need a lot of help. Here is a little info I got from the the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History. Feel free to add to it.

Lion oil
Lion Oil is an El Dorado (Union County) corporation that refines and produces oil, gasoline, and other oil-based products. Its products include not only fuels and asphalt but industrial solvents and oil-based roofing products. Lion is a major employer in southern Arkansas, with more than 500 employees.
When the oil boom began in southern Arkansas in 1920, Colonel Thomas Harry Barton, a Texas native, came to El Dorado and began investing in the emerging industry, organizing the El Dorado Natural Gas Co. In 1922, he took over a small refinery in El Dorado that became the Lion Oil and Refining Co. Initially, the refinery produced 2,000 barrels per day and employed twenty-five people. Reportedly, Barton decided to call the company “Lion Oil” because of his fondness for wordplay; the name of the company is a palindrome, spelled the same forward and backward.

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s932 #452001 Thu Aug 01 2013 03:40 AM
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This is all the lion oil stuff I have


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Another play on words--Knik Knocks.
Nice globe!

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Thanks the Knix Knox is a hard globe to find


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How many of the Knix Knox globes are known to exist? I have a lens, and I think Coke and stuff owns the "mate" of mine. Here's a picture.

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Looking for any cans! PM me what ya got!
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Here is a lion oil can I also have


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Noah the Knix Knox globe is rare but not impossible to find if your willing to pay. To know how many exists would be tough to guess.


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knix knox lens would be a cool lens to have.. cool


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Company award.

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Collecting the Mississippi companies:
Billups, Southland, Rose Oil,Crystal Oil, Barq's
Dave Richey #452420 Fri Aug 02 2013 06:05 PM
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My Lion stuff.

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justgassy #452463 Fri Aug 02 2013 09:35 PM
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Just returned home from Iowa. I will start posting pics tomorrow I should have enough stuff to fill up 2-3 pages. As far as the Knix Knox globes and rarity goes, they are out there I know of around 15 lenses in collections.
Some are complete globes other singles.

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I have been waiting on you Joey lol. I thought of how many people I knew personally that has the Knix Knox and I came up close to your number Joey. You also have to consider the people who have them that we don't no about.


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Got back late last night from Iowa with this one.It went from Arkansas to Iowa and now back in its home state!I will try to post a few more pics later.Mark

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Here we go....

A few quarts





Globes



Black Lion Signs


coke_and_stuff #452546 Sat Aug 03 2013 11:23 AM
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2 pump plates



Naturalube and No Smoking both came out of a bulk plant together.



6ft Lion Sign



Promotional Towel



Lion Padlock


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