PETROLIANA

Petroliana is a category of collectibles that is related to gas stations or the petroleum industry. Petroliana memorabilia include items such as old gas pumps, fuel adverti*****ts, enamel or tin signs, oil cans and tins, and road maps.

Most of us have collected some or all of the items listed, let's see what you have collected.

I seem to have a obsession with the tall old bottles.













And a rare Shell cap/ HRP

 

I have a few small items.

 

Th Autolite sign was completely covered with silver paint. Still not perfect , but better than it was.

 

Back wall of my office, I got some Nic naks around old fire extinguisher a ford lunch box and a few other things .

 

My Grandpa’s aluminum hard hat he wore working at the refinery in Ponca City OK. If this isn’t appropriate it’s ok to delete

 

Tie clip I found at a garage sale

 

Lube dispenser is not an antique, but I made it to resemble one. The hand cart is an antique.

 

I have a feeling this thread is going to be a real gas. He he .

 

I recently bid on 2 different lots for old signs from a auto shop going out of business.

There was about 10 signs in a lot I bid $350 on...but they sold for over $1000. I wish I would have had the forsight to collect old auto signs years ago...

 

I have a oil dispenser very similar to this one, (PIX) and I need some parts for it, (stopped pumping) (pix). Need the leather tear drop stopper and the (leather) diaphragm and br*** spider ring. Any suggestions??

 

1920's

 

For all the Shell collectors on here. Picked this up cheap the other day. Shell Oil Zippo magnifying gl***. Made by Zippo, looks like a Zippo, but it actually has two magnifying lenses inside the case. Haven’t seen another one like it before.

 

You can always light a smoke with one of those^^^^^.....

 

Unless you smoke at night.

 

I use Bic lighters.....

 

Those magnifying lenses help you identify why the ag chemicals listed didn’t work.