[SEL] I found something about which I know nothing!!!

[Luke Tonneberger]

Jim,

Sounds like what you have is a gold mine! Those old gas pumps and the globes 
can be worth ALOT!

The engine that I posted is a Hercules.

Luke Tonneberger
Rockford, Michigan
USA

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>From: James Moran <jrmoraninc at yahoo.com>
>
>LK, et. al.-
>Another thing that I neglected to mention in the
>history write-up thing.  This may be of interest to
>some of you or none of you but, anyway...
>As I mentioned, the farm site was also used as the
>operational base for the fuel oil business.  In
>addition to the tractor, etc. I found many "vintage"
>gasoline dispensing pumps.  These range from the early
>20'/30's gravity fill type up to more contemporary
>styles from the sixties or so.  My understanding is
>that some of these at least DO have value.  For
>example, the early ones are crafted from heavy iron
>and stand in the seven foot tall range.  Along with
>the pumps I found a substantial number of brand-new
>(that is to say never used) hemispherical glass lenses
>that were used to call out the brand name of the fuel
>when mounted to the pumps.  There is more related
>stuff such as old fashioned oil dispensers and the
>containers into which oil was poured.  Also really old
>greasers,etc.
>Again, most of you probably don't care about these
>kinds of things but I thought that I would pass it on
>anyway. :-)
>JM
>