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Old Tin Cans

rusty6

rusty6

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Location
East central Sask.
I've accumulated quite a few over the years and it seems some of them are worth a bit now. This one stack I've got.

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Brings back memories of visiting my grandparent's farm almost a lifetime ago, a city kid running free with no worries! My Grandpa never had a shop, just an old shed with his tools.
 
Hi Rusty,

What is that container in the lower middle? Is that dirt or coffee grounds or ashes? That container looks like a
container my parents had which was called a coal pail for carrying briquettes or ashes.

An interesting collection. Have you accumulated all or did you inherit a smaller collection and add to it?

Ron
 
(quoted from post at 12:23:37 01/14/22) Hi Rusty,

What is that container in the lower middle? Is that dirt or coffee grounds or ashes? That container looks like a
container my parents had which was called a coal pail for carrying briquettes or ashes.

An interesting collection. Have you accumulated all or did you inherit a smaller collection and add to it?

Ron
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Ron, I thnk what you are seeing there is actually the lower clutch housing off the 53 Mercury parts car. I should have moved it for the photo. The tins were never intended as a collection but nobody ever threw much away here. Tobacco tins stored all manner of odds and ends. Bigger anti freeze or oil tins held bolts and nuts, etc. I've got some of the big five gallon BA and Esso oil pails. Shell, Co-op, probably plenty of others that escape me now. Guess I need to organize them all in one spot and start a tin can museum.
 
Is that a summer kitchen, brooder house, cream separator shack, or?

I could post the same pic darn near, almost to the same rafters and similar content.

Neat.

Paul
 
Speaking of old tins I've accumulated these over the years, probably 25+ years but as Rusty says we never threw much away on the farm so here are some results.
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I never collected cans, but have one Billy Beer can. I have a few old bottles I dug up years ago. One bottle says: The Great Swamp Root kidney, and
bladder cure. Stan
 
I downsized, sold a bunch like that.
Automotive cans were popular, probably
still are.
 
I read that Dr. Kilmer had to shut down his swamp root operation in 1906. Quite a few of his bottles are still dug up in Illinois.
 
Vogue tobacco tins, I think they were Canadian. Neighbour friend down the street's dad was never without a home rolled cigarette in his mouth all the years I knew the family. He smoked Vogue tobacco and probably never threw a tin away, they were everywhere and filled with something or other. Thirty years later I happened to visit the parents at their lake cottage when I was in the vicinity. Same thing still for those cans but the old fella had quit smoking. Somehow it would have been disappointing for me though if the cans weren't there.
 
Rusty 6,

Those are cool.

I think the label says WILLS... but the
gold cans with a red label are
particulary neat looking.
 
(quoted from post at 16:22:46 01/14/22) Havent heard the word Co-op in 40 years. Brings back a lot of memories.Dad had a bunch of co-op oil
cans and such in the 1960s.
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Co-op? Its almost the centre of my world. Pretty well all my farm inputs, fuel, groceries etc. come from one or the other local Co-ops. So you bet there is Co-op memorabilia here.
 
(quoted from post at 15:52:31 01/14/22) Rusty 6,

Those are cool.

I think the label says WILLS... but the
gold cans with a red label are
particulary neat looking.
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Ys, plenty of Wills and Vogue tobacco tins here from my dad's "roll your own" days. Players, Macdonalds, Sportsman, plus a bunch of other lesser known brands. I try to include some of them in the background of some of my videos.
 
(quoted from post at 19:04:04 01/14/22) Here's one I have
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Although I have heard the name I have never seen the Wolfs Head cans before. Maybe none sold in Canada?
Here is one of my oldest and probably most valuable. It is part of the farm and no doubt my grandfather used it on the Rock Island Heider and Red River Special. Possible even the IHC Famous portable engine.

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(quoted from post at 13:28:00 01/14/22) Is that a summer kitchen, brooder house, cream separator shack, or?
Paul
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Paul that was originally an "oil shed" donated to me by a friend who was throwing it out. It is probably an old grain bin but pretty small. Solidly built with what appears to be re-cycled lumber. Some of the rafters and studs are spliced. They sure didn't waste lumber back then. I do actually keep some oil in it along with a whole lot of other "junk".
 

I got 4/5 old Harley Davidson metal oil cans that were full and like new when a guy gave them to me in the early 70's. I put them in the truck of my 68 Chevelle and forgot about them. They rolled around and and beat them up a bit. Last year they went to leaking so its not the motor cycle its the oil they use. I was not surprised : )
 
I also like old cans, picked these up a while back and the mention of Co-Op made me go take a few pics. I am thinking the one with tractors
on it is late 50s and the other is 60s? New unopened 5 gallon hydraulic oil. Shell wheel bearing and track roller are of a style that I think is
30s or 40s. If anyone has a better idea on dates I would love to hear about it. Thanks, Mike
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(quoted from post at 09:24:20 01/15/22) I also like old cans, picked these up a while back and the mention of Co-Op made me go take a few pics. I am thinking the one with tractors
on it is late 50s and the other is 60s?
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Did you notice that first pail with the tractor silhouette on it resembles the Cockshutt 40/50 side view? Not surprising as those series Cockshutts from the early to mid fifties were sold through the National Farm Machinery Co-op by an agreement with Cockshutt. In 1952 the NFMC went into receivership but Cockshutt tractors were still sold through the Farm Bureau Co-ops through 1957. From the book "Cockshutt The Complete Story".
 
(quoted from post at 17:24:20 01/15/22) I also like old cans, picked these up a while back and the mention of Co-Op made me go take a few pics. I am thinking the one with tractors
on it is late 50s and the other is 60s? New unopened 5 gallon hydraulic oil. Shell wheel bearing and track roller are of a style that I think is
30s or 40s. If anyone has a better idea on dates I would love to hear about it. Thanks, Mike
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Farmers Union "Central Exchange" St. Paul, Mn., guess that is where Cenex name started
DWF
 
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