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Are these worth anything ????
forgemonkey
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All matching bottles, spouts and caps.
Antique cash register,,,,, Largest denomination key = .50¢ ,,,,, it works.
Copper soup tureen ,,,,,, with stainless interior.
And no, the grinding wheel patio table is not for sale ,,,,, 🤣
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I checked them out using AI. It says:
Sounds like enough for a nice new firearm!
The late Frank Fritz would have drooled all over those oil bottles.
I clearly recall seeing them at every gas station in the 50s. They held reconditioned 30w oil at about half the price of new oil. Dad bought the bottled stuff a lot. I kinda remember it being about 15 cents a quart.
Gas stations used to fill the bottles with oil hand-pumped from a barrel. Quick & handy when a car was a quart low (a lot more common than today). I remember seeing it when I was a kid, late 40's.
Pretty cool items. List them at;
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In the late 80's, I worked as a manager for an old family owned oil company that had 4 gas stations located in various areas of my hometown.
In the attic of the headquarters station (which was built back in the 1920's) there were shelves loaded with several of those oil bottles in holders. Also, a few old procyclin metal signs and several fancy glass gas pump headers that were NOS wrapped in paper. The place was torn down a couple years ago and a huge resort hotel now stands in its place.
I really like that Michigan cash register! I watched the Antique Roadshow last night and they had a super fancy one that was appraised back in 2009 for some big bucks. They did an update on that appraisal for 2024 and it had lost more than half of its value.
JMHO
very neat items and were are ? Sought after collectibles the oil bottles cross between several collector markets
But I have also noticed a lot of what was collector items have lost value my guess not as many collectors especialy younger generations
any more seem most collectors are older like most of us
Maybe the economy money in a lot of families is very tight .Maybe the space to keep such items
or just abig one the lack of interest in collecting, i know my sons have told me they have no use or want a lot of what i have offered to them say no need just taking up room in ther houses
Years ago I rememer wa program antique road show explained the internet killed a lot of prices
A item in your state or area may have been super rare and prices were crazy tho knew
the internet came along and that same item was found to a common item in other areas and hundreds ormore just like it in other states started showing up
Regardless I think there neat and still should do well in a auction
There just the right size to display and be a great conversation or collector item for the man cave or she shed a my wife calles her hobby filled out building
Let us know what you decide
Only speaking for myself but being born in an age where past history meant something is what made my interest in collecting old things special to me.
Today, that same history has been either changed, erased, swept under the carpet and ignored as to have never happened.
I worked at a gas station in the 50's. Oil then came in steel cans and a spout was pierced into the can when oil was added to a customers car. There would be a tablespoon or two left in the can. The station had a drain set-up where the "empty" cans, one at a time, drained into those oil bottles. When full, that oil was sold again. One of my jobs was to change the "empty" cans and cap the bottles when full. I was also instructed that most, but not all, the oil from the new can (that the customer paid for) went into the customer's car!
Those spouts were the "church key" of oil cans. They left a triangular hole about an inch on a side and the spout clung to the can for pouring. There was always enough oil left in the can and on the spout to be worthwhile collecting - or left to drain onto an oil rag to wipe stuff down.
I still have one or two oil can spouts........out in the garage..............somewhere!🤔
I remember the shady gas station places had a game ? That people were warned about The attendant would" short dip "the oil gage show the driver it was low , then grab a empty can with the a spout in it and pretend to add oil and pocket the money
I can't image it was much money but greed has no limits
With the cars many of us drove in the 50's, it was usually necessary to add oil when stopping for gas. The old non-joke was "Fill up the oil and check the gas!".
The oil bottles would sell for $29 each and would be double that if they had an oil company name on them. The oil bottles are a little more fancy style all matching set with the basket and they have caps over the spouts, the set would be in the value of $350. The cash register would be in the value of $1250 to $1350, but would actually sell for $900, what I mean is you can price something high, and it will sit for 6 months to a year before you get a bite, but will sell quicker at the lower figure. The fondue pot is worth scrap, I love to get those at garage sales for a couple of bucks, grind off the steel handles and feet, smash the copper flat and remove the brass top knob and sort them in my scrap barrels.
When I worked at a gas station in the 60s it was called bulk oil.