one can for me.. ...

Some stuff out of an old farm of the family that owned a station and car dealership. It is no longer in business.

One I have been waiting on for some time!

Because sometimes globes get lonely, or maybe it's double the pleasure, double the fun....

Here ya go!

Lots of stuff for me, best garage sale ever but bittersweet as all this belonged to a friend that passed away suddenly earlier this year. I sold him quite a few of these items over the years.



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Very fortunate to have found this early Texaco single sided porcelain 42" in fantastic condition!

Couple other pics of stuff I got today, black and white pic is the actual sign I bought. Looks like a Texaco tanker, it's from La Grande Oregon

Cool stuff, Neil. Nice that you got the old pics with the signs shown.

Very nice Ford signs from the PNW. I like the punch out signs in particular.
It would be nice to see it "back lit" at some time in the future if you have a chance Neil

Estate sales fines some early metal polish cans and a thermometer.

Great stuff Mark!

Here are my recent buys:

8x12 Pump pate ('55). Looking for a 10x15 version if anybody has one for sale. Please PM me.


Sunoco Sunflush sign (have had my eye on this one for a while, and finally pulled the trigger)


A Philgas sign purchased from an oldgasser many months back that I finally got into my hands:

Picked up this really cool round Mobil Handy Oiler.
The oval shows the size.
Steve

Wow!! Rob that SunFlush sign is just incredible!! Can't imagine where you were watching this!

Here is a picture of it in action. Unfortunately not the greatest pic. But certainly that sign. You can even see the triangulated off corner in white.

Here's mine...I worked out a trade for it. I love California Specific stuff and Sebastopol is only about an hour and half away from me. What year do you guys think it is?

IMO- 30's.. ...

Arkansas Fuel Oil Co division / Cities Service

Dave

Hey Neil nice haul you got there especially the Veedol Forsol can,boy I would like to have that one ,never have seen it before,,,,thanks for shareing

Alan

Cool sign Mr. Belvedere2. Here is mine with arrow the other way.

Those two Sebastopol signs must have been hung within sight or a short distance from the garage (or the town), as the miles (M) wasn't filled in...

nice sign Buster! how did it end up way out in indy?

Ebay

RECENT BUYS FOR ME,,2Liter German can & 1 Gallon French can..
2-- 1920`s Tidewater giveaway cans..txs Alan

Very nice cans, and tide water tins Al!

Nice stuff Russ.

Love the Wardshine and Admiral cans, Russ. Right up my alley.

Here is a JD Streett Topaz Grease can I was able to get on eBay, thanks to a tip from a collector friend here on Oldgas.com. Cool can graphic. Note the tiny kids pulling on the wheels of the carriage while the adults sit in it.

Jim,
from your hometown- nice graphic can, do you have any history on this company?.. ...

Jim,

Are those tiny kids brownies? Not the girl scout kind but the impish trouble-making kind popular in the late 1800's, early 1900's. They were known to be both trouble makers and helpers as the little ones on your can.

Wikipedia does not do them justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brownies). We had a book (https://archive.org/details/browniestheirboocoxp)that my father had as a kid, and if you think of the Richard Scary books where lots was happening on a page, triple the trouble with the brownies, as some pages had what seemed like hundreds of brownies, climbing and jumping off things and getting into all sorts of trouble.

If not, I wonder if the can was from their era (1879-1918), kind of a copy cat idea as the brownies were so popular...

Yes, JD Streett is a company I collect. It started in 1884 and is still in business today. They didn't have a refinery, but they were early in the business of transporting bulk lubricant components from refineries and blending them for specific uses. They had a fleet of Mississippi barge towboats and multiple bulk river terminals. They have blended and packaged oils and coolants for many major and independent brands for most of the past century. Their gasoline brand was Zephyr, but all the stations were independently owned. Streett has distributed gasoline to many brands from its terminal on the Explorer Pipeline since 1971. They have marketed other brands such as HPX, Penndurol, Streett's and Cardinal.



Nicole, You might be right about the "brownies" as they have funny little hats and tights in the picture. Kind of a weird but cool graphic. Like they didn't need horses to pull the carriage because they had these brownies and good Topaz grease on the axles. I believe it is from the era you mentioned. See pic.

That is it! Click on the book link I provided and look at the different outfits the Brownies wore, and you can see it is a copycat! Both the riding and pushing characters... Wikipedia mentioned that a lot of copycatting was done of the Brownies back then to sell other products.

btw if you are having trouble seeing the book, go to the Wikipedia site first and click on the first book there. As a little kid, I didn't/couldn't read it, just spent hours looking at the pictures that told their own story.

Learn something new every day here but it isn't always oil and gas!

Picked up a set of lenses for this frame I have been working on.
Along with a Sunoco curb sign base that I have, and a blue porcelain shade with spot lights that I have, I plan to make some kind of lamp stand out of all of this.

Use a nice gas pump for the base!

Lol!

It found a good home Steve!