Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums Showcase and Stories, Petroliana BOTW: "BUYS OF THE WEEK!" - SEPT 6th - 12th.

FOUND THIS AT A YARDSALE HAVING SEVERAL OIL BOTTLES. MOST WERE GENERIC COMMONS, BUT THIS ONE STOOD OUT....SO I BOUGHT IT BECAUSE IT WAS DIFFERENT. READS "MARQUETTE MFG CO" EMBOSSED IN THE GLASS. I ASSUME IT'S AN OIL BOTTLE.

ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THESE ARE WORTH?



THANKS!

Buys of the Last Two Weeks For me Enjoy:


Bought This to hang outside on the garage

Paid $2 for all of these plus a MINT "Advanced" Texaco Can:



Thought this sign was cool needs some cleaning:



Cool SOCONY can I found at a local flea market (Any idea on Value)?


Bought One off fee bay and the "Magnetic Film" I bought off a barn:


Texaco Roofing Can- Looking for the Sign In "patina" condition:



I bought this off the wall at a garage sale:



Not a Gulf Collector but thought this was cool:




Enjoy

I finally got around to stopping by an old closed up gas station that has been closed for "Mega" years, and every time I stop by the owner isn't around! This time I caught him at home and he told me there wasn't anything of value in the station and he didn't want to sell anything anyway. After a few minutes of polite conversation with him, he agreed to go down and show me the old place. It was once a Cities Service station and we had a long visit about the stations history and a real enjoyable conversation about the past. As we were ready to leave, I asked if he'd sell me a souvenir and when he asked what it would be, I showed him 2 items that were in nice shape and he agreed to sell them to me after all! As we were departing the station, he invited me out to the shed behind the station where he kept his old John Deere tractors. Very average tractors but he was very proud of them and as we were leaving, he let me take 2 old Cities Service, 5 gal cans that were as nice as I've seen! It took an hour out of my time but I was able to buy some really nice stuff and I learned about a piece of history, right here in my area. I also had a great conversation with an amazing old fellw---He's 96 years young! May I be so blessed as to live that long and be in that good of shape!
Here is the "BEFORE" pics




Here are the pics "AFTER" the cleanup. Fuse display is absolutely perfect on the sides and back! Its an older model with the wire dividers!

3 Signs: 12' Shell, 6' Texaco, 72" Veedol (AM-636 marked in corner, 1936?)

My BOTW. Only took 2 months to finally get it. See General Discussion forum if you have any info on the sign.

Thanks
Mac

Hi First new item for my collection in a while- Rare early 1900s facing gargoyle 5 gallon can-
check my site at www.oilnspeed.com

WOW,some very nice stuff guys,Kevin those cleaned up nicely!Not much for me but i was able to grab a A.o Smith/Erie salesman 48 pump w/ porcelain doors,and to my surprise won to many items i bid on Friday on e-bay,got to the office this morning & checked with a screen full of PAYNOW'S !lol ANYWAYS great stuff ,Doc i sure wish we had more garage sales like the one you went to,doc sometimes the spout will be marked with a pat/date or makers mark "embossed" anyways very cool find,i would think the bottle would fetch $50.-$100.looks to be in good shape spout and all!

Not much to look at but they were going to be scrapped so I "saved um"









They are all single sided. The plain sunoco sign was a neon. still has part of the can and some clips on them.

OOOF! I FEEL THE PAIN OF EVERY FOLD AND CHIP! NICE BAG NONETHELESS!

GREAT BUYS GUYS....KEEP 'EM COMIN'!

TWO NEW QUART CANS

A couple of new signs for me:

From ebay;



From Mike(Bruzer75);



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Here is an original pair of Freedom ad glasses that I picked up on Ebay. These are very tough to find.

Ryan Those Ad Glass are Killer!!!!!

Here are a few items I picked up last week at a local toy show.

Keith

A couple of things I picked up on the trip



Sign hung outside the main gate to Champlin Refinery when it closed last logo used by them.



3 Champlin can variations that I didnt have 2 S-3 and Deluxe