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The pictured item is 10 inches tall.
(Photo: Ebay/dkr2rer2)
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This was my hip flask before it was hip to have a hip flask. That’s why it wasn’t hip….it was too big for my hip pocket.
Pictured is a whale oil storage container, brass and copper with a bail handle, marked Stauffer and no. 2 on the top of the cap.
Lighthouse oil can
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Oil can
Oil can.
coal carrier
Looks like a sampling bomb for sampling liquids in a tank car or in some sort of tank. Or it could be for carrying liquid samples back to the lab.
Whale oil storage brass and copper
Gasoline can
Kerosene jug