On one of many trips on the Montana hi-line I stopped at an old station and asked for old signs and oil cans. Owner said no, it’s all gone, but another fellow who happened to be in there at the time said “what do you pay for cans?”
Depends on condition and rarity I guess.
He said follow me. Went across the street to an abandoned station he owned. Inside he got me a ladder and I went up in a crawl space to see cases of empty cans that had been used and put back in their cases.
Hauled them all down, made a deal, rest is history. Mostly Clack Heccolene quarts and Texaco havolene qts.
If you have a minty Heccolene quart, odds are it was from this find.
A funny note to this story, the day before I had stopped at a bulk station about 50 miles away and the guy had a Heccolene quart that was full. I had never seen this can before and offered up to 250.00 for it (pile of money back then) but it couldn’t be bought.
Next day I find cases...

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Wanted early tin litho signage.
petro, farm, auto, etc.