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Please - NO offers to Buy or Sell in this forum category
Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
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Sweet can! Looks awesome.
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Great story!! And great luck is right!!
What would this can have been for before it's repurpose to a furniture polish can? It doesn't really say much on it. Steve, it looks to me like one of those "general purpose" cans that they stamped and labeled it with whatever they chose to fill it with. I say that because of the blank rectangle at the top of the can. I have seen other companies use this same technique to multi purpose certain cans.
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Kevin to paraphrase golfer Jerry Barber who said " the more I practice the luckier I get". The more you look the luckier you get. Including getting, what was it, a sign at your wife's quilting club meeting.
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Congrats Kevin. I would seriously consider that lottery ticket.
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Very cool Kevin! Congrats on the score! We know its in good hands.
Looking for any cans! PM me what ya got!
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Great story!! And great luck is right!!
What would this can have been for before it's repurpose to a furniture polish can? It doesn't really say much on it. Steve, it looks to me like one of those "general purpose" cans that they stamped and labeled it with whatever they chose to fill it with. I say that because of the blank rectangle at the top of the can. I have seen other companies use this same technique to multi purpose certain cans. Ahhh, gotcha! I really like these basic white Cities cans, like the oiler you posted in the oiler thread. They come across as somewhat plain, but they just look clean and cool to me!! Love 'em!
Steve Coppens
Always interested in Sunoco items!
Really want a Sunoco National pump ad glass!!
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Great score! Wish this stuff would happen to me  lol I like these stories part of the reason to keep hunting for that perticular can for the collection.
Oilzum, 1qt Oil Cans, Gas and Oil smalls, Oldsmobile collectables.
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Congrats Kevin! Very nice find indeed!
Wanted anything Flying A Gas, Signal Gas, Hancock oil co, and Sunland.
Thanks Anthony
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Kevin that is a way cool can!!! Scott B.
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...so, what happens to the paper label? Both this, and the Gargoyle thread, seemed to give short shrift to the labels, which I would argue are rarer than the cans themselves...I think I'd be hard-pressed to cut an original label off of a can...if I could separate the label where it was glued, I might remove it...
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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Stories like this keep the hobby and anticipation about the next item fun! Awesome story and find Kevin!
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Mark-- The label was overlapped and glued and the furniture polish had loosened the glue to the point of simply lifting the edge with my fingernail and it came right apart! I currently have it pressed between 2 paper shop towels and between the pages of "One Hundred Years of Gas Stations". Nice heavy book--LOL
That should flatten it out and soak all the furniture polish out of it! Hopefully!
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Mark-- The label was overlapped and glued and the furniture polish had loosened the glue to the point of simply lifting the edge with my fingernail and it came right apart! I currently have it pressed between 2 paper shop towels and between the pages of "One Hundred Years of Gas Stations". Nice heavy book--LOL
That should flatten it out and soak all the furniture polish out of it! Hopefully! ...you'll never get it all out, but I'm glad to hear the label came off easy as a dress on prom night...
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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