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Hello,
Curious to know if this is an original piece or may have been reproduced some time ago... It looks very old and the graphics appear to be litho onto the metal...
Thanks for any input!

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Looks original to me....


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Likewise....I've seen this bucket on occasion over the past 40 years! Would find it hard to believe it was reproduced along the way. I would think the vintage on this bucket is mid-to-later teen's. John

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It's real. Should have an embossed cover as well.

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Thanks for jogging my memory, Too, Tankar. The lid has a large embossed wagon wheel on it, if I recall correctly. John

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For sure real . Here is a picture of mine along with a picture of the lid .

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There's also a similar bucket from Standard Oil of Indiana. It could be my senior moment memory, but perhaps that one was the large wagon wheel embossed on the lid. I know there's a lithographed image of a wagon wheel on the one-pound, blue and white version of the Standard Mica Axle Grease can. Maybe that's what's stuck in my mind. John

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the smaller version with the wheel .. ... cool

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Thanks for all the input!

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Thanks for posting the pictures, Randy. Nice to know my wife doesn't need to make a reservation for me in the "memory unit" at our local nursing home just yet. John

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Years ago I wrote an article for "CTO" where I inserted an picture from a page in a 1958 National Petroleum News. The picture showed the can above and the article announced that Standard Oil was finally going to discontinue the sale of Axle Grease. They didn't say why, but I believe they had finally run out of horse drawn wagons to use it on. Your can might not be as old as you think it is.

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