Oil Can. Made in U.S.A.
Very small. 3.5″ high. A very portable oil can.
I’m not sure the era. I do wonder if that oval held advertising at some point, in the vein of Day 68’s Valve Spout Oil Can. My intense research at that point led me to discover that oil cans were made of metal until WWII. So this could be from the 1940s.
Status: Another borrowed item. Have I cleaned all my personal clutter out?
Kill-ratio: 18:3 or 6:1
RIP Andy Griffith
Obsolescence Project 
“A very portable oil can.”
You made me laugh.
Ta.
Thanks Ben, good to know someone got a chuckle:)
Beautiful (the pictures and the object). And that oval does look tantalisingly like it once housed a label of some sort.
Thanks! Yes I feel it must have. Lovingly washed away, or just left out in the rain who knows.
That second shot is lovely. Please don’t be out of stuff…
Thanks Richard. Sadly there is more stuff:) Just have to look a little closer and deeper. I just gave away 3 books to the library. I originally had 4 in the pile, but held one back – I thought, hey this could qualify as an obso item:)
Now everything is made out of oil – even the oil cans!
Hah!