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Thanks Everyone!

I bought this can at the Brimfield Antique Show yesterday. It's in great shape (one of the cleanest cans in my collection).

If anyone else collects these type of cans, let me know! It's always nice to meet people who collect the same type of items.

Looking forward to seeing other people's Buys of the Week.

Hello all, Here are my botw for last week. The Sunland can was my favorite, they don't come up for sale often.Keep them coming!!

Liking that west coast Mobil restroom plaque
Here is mine, nothing special.
5 Quart Earlier Opaline little rough but affordable.

Picked up a Gilbarco pump today. Missing the base but I have a spare.

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Conoco PPP is one of the 9inch by 7.5 inch for a MS/Wayne 80 in VGC!

My first rocker.

Picked up a triple lubster with Cities Service on it and if you look close to the right of the logo you can see MEDIUM at the top and 15 cents below it.

Hello All,
I was very fortunate to be the only bidder on this large archive of Socony-Vacuum and Socony Mobil era company magazines. I couldn't believe I didn't have any competition on the lot of 141 magazines, ranging in date from 1935 to 1959. (There was one from 1928 that predates the S-V period that I study.)
In my 8+ years of collecting Mobil items I had only found 4 issues of "Socony Vacuum News" which is a larger format magazine that came out in March of 1935. With the purchase of the archive I was able to double my collection which was worth the price that I paid for the whole lot alone IMO. I've put out want ads on Old Gas for this particular magazine and it has never yielded any results, so I was super happy to get them. The first one I read (Nov 1935) had a story on the Pegasus license plate toppers. Also very interesting so far is that the small round S-V Pegasus service pins were first awarded in 1935. This was much earlier than I thought. The amount of information in these is unbelievable, especially when you are interested in company history as I am!




The bulk of the lot are issues of "Doings In General" which was the west coast magazine for the employees of the General Petroleum Division of Socony-Vacuum. These too have been very interesting to look through. There are lots of photos to scan and see if there might be something new to me in the backgrounds. So far I have found what appears to be a General Mobilgas lollipop sign that I didn't know existed.




As mentioned in the "Don't Forget Paper" thread a while back, don't overlook these types of items if you are really interested in the history of the company you collect. Most all of the big companies had these employee magazines during the glory days.
Darin

was able to pick up one of these hard to find Cities Service oil bottle spouts...

also a 30" rare color scheme of red crown sign, a early Cities yellow can, and a Derby gas globe

Finally got a goodyear sign again and glad to have it back. The rest of the buys were all from friends and I am very glad to get them.

Went to an estate sale in Kalamazoo on Friday and picked this great lubester up. As well as the texaco cans and alemite grease can. Got the silver bell from a member.

I picked up a small desk clock:



And thanks to Butch, I filled a "hole" in my Whiz display:



And filled another empty spot with this Whiz "Saddle Soap" tin dated 1938:

here's mine....

I received a call last week on the "Wanted to Buy" ad that I keep running in the local trade paper. The man said he had 2 gas pumps for sale, but he had no idea what they were, but said one had "signs" on it!
Since it was only a short distance away, I made an appointment for the next morning and headed up there. When I arrived, we headed into the old shop building to look at the 2 pumps. I found he had a Gilbarco 96 done up with Standard Oil Red Crown plates and a really nice little Tokheim 300 that had no markings!
We discussed price and after reaching an agreement, he informed me that he had some "PUMP PARTS" in another building, if I wanted to look at them. I was instantly curious as to what and why he might have some "PUMP PARTS" in another building, and he explained that his father was a packrat and never threw away anything!
We drove over to an old ramshackle, falling down building and had to duck to get in the door. The ceiling was coming down and it was hard to move around in there, but laying on the dirt floor was the complete top half of a Wayne 615, the bottom part of a Wayne 70 stationlighter, and a handle for some unknown visible pump! We had a long conversation about the parts, made a deal on the price, and hauled them out to the truck!
We then drove back to load the pumps and it wasn't going to be easy, because they were in the back part of the old shop and you could only get part way in with the pickup truck! We did a bunch of dragging and sliding and got them close enough to load with my handy dandy loading system, and the next thing you know, we were loaded and ready to hit the road! As we were talking, I admired an old Pennzoil bottle sitting on the bench, and he handed it to me and said to take it along! The color was still good, so it made the trip with the rest of the stuff!
Only thing left to do was pay the man for his goods, and I handed over the cash as he begin to ask me if I was interested in any more pumps? Of course, I replied and asked what he meant? He explained that his neighbor had 2 pumps on the farm yard to the south that they weren't using, and he looked up the mans phone number for me. Since he wasn't home, he offered to take me over and show them to me, so that I would know what they were. We drove over and found 2 more very early computer pumps standing and waiting to be rescued! When I finally get a hold of the owner, I just may be going back!
ITS STILL OUT THERE FELLAS, ITS STILL OUT THERE!!

The Cities Service--Shoemaker Coal globe is a separate deal that was worked out between myself and another Old Gasser that lined it up. Its only a single lens and in a little rough condition, but its so rare and the only one I have ever seen, that I had to have it for my collection. It always seems that if you look long and hard for something, you eventually find one and as soon as you add it to your collection, you run across all kinds of them! LOL Maybe that will happen here? LOL

wow that cities service globe is amazing

Here's mine, real clean 766 just up the road from my house! I thought I had picked them all years ago!

Just got back from a road trip and was able to pick up a few new items including this early die cut Boyce-ite flange sign and an NOS Golden Shell sign on the original rack....

Picked up this 2 sided Bear Alignment sign on Sunday.Odd thing the Bear on both sides is in great shape but the middle sign part has all the rust (aka patina).

My first Neon clock..It may become addictive!

Got this electric lighter that probably sat on the auto parts counter back when you could smoke indoors in America, kinda cool...

Got these three things besides the great two pumps my wife got me in the non-petro section big birthday party.

...do I see a porcelain Cities Service pump panel peeking out from behind that paint?

No I wish just painted. But it is an original Cities Service pump. Under that cracked Gulf sticker is Cities ad glass.

Here are mine a nice Bennett 646 and an etched Sinclair HC globe. The Bennett is the first pump I have found here in the Midwest with the glass jars on the lights.

is that orig. firing on the HC globe?..

Awesome stuff everyone! Well I was lucky enough to save these two signs from the junk pile out on a farm. The Phillips 66 sign is my first one on a pole so I am excited about that, it will clean up really nice and the Kendall sign is just painted metal and in rough shape, but good enough to bring to a good home! As Kevin said, it is still out there!!

HC globe has been repainted.

Nice little 66 globe that has been stored for years.

Dennis, love the Boycite flange and Mark, the little shield globe is killer.... Everyone seems to be scoring nicely....

Just back from a road trip. Been chasing the Campbell's Soup sign for some time. JJ

Wow!! Love that Conoco qrt rack!!! Is that sign the same size as the pump signs?

Rare Boyce-ite Globe I bought for my Grandson...

That is without a doubt the coolest 2 gallon I've ever seen!!! Congrats on that one!!!!! Now find me one!!!

"Now find me one!!!"

I hear you Keith. I'm off to Metuchen tomorrow to start ringing doorbells !

Nice one Joey!Lots of other nice stuff everyone!Keep em coming.

12 inches long

Standard of California kind of day!



This is one of the signs that I have and now I have some of the inserts for it too!

Here are the more graphic inserts for the above sign.

These are all either 1936 or 1937.
This final one is very bright and breathtaking!

The Mobiloil are Black Porcelain (Standard of California ONLY color) and almost perfect for original 30s letters that were used by a station.

The Texaco No Smoking is a beaut!