(Found this all-steel imperial quart motor oil can on a recent walk along a former logging road – now in a protected natural area. Judging exact age is hard with no labelling left, but Internet-roshi says cans of this type were standard from the 20s through the 50s. All things considered, I'd guess 40s – early 50s for this one. Note the distinctive hole left by the old-school oil can spout. I threw at least one of those spouts away a few years ago, when I moved my mom out of the house she'd lived in for nearly 40 years.)
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We used to burn rubbish in these drums in the 50's - out in the back yard.
ReplyDeleteThis is just a one imperial quart can. But I remember the drums as well.
ReplyDeleteI call that oil can.
ReplyDeleteNice photo of your hiking find. I remember the spout my dad used to open a quart oil can when I was a child.
ReplyDeleteDe rigueur in the day. I well remember periodically emptying three to four quarts into my old 64 1/2 Plymouth Barracuda back in high school, using one of those opener spouts. By those days the cans were made of cardboard; only the ends were still metal. You'd find those round metal ends in the remains of slag fires.
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