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Blacking bottles - 2/17/2009 9:52:24 AM    #1twin   Posts: 751 Joined: 5/25/2006 From: Biloxi Ms Status: offline This is a pic of two Blacking bottles. The top one reads- ACME BLACKING TRADE MARK WOLFF & RANDOLPH PHILDELPHIA. Bottom bottle reads- THE BURCKARD BLACKING & OIL CO. BALTIMORE, MD. U.S.A. Any info regarding these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marvin "the mole" Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Blacking bottles - 2/17/2009 10:40:57 AM    cyberdigger Posts: 12277 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: offline I believe blacking was stove polish.. or possibly shoe polish.. (in reply to #1twin) Post #: 2

RE: Blacking bottles - 2/17/2009 12:54:41 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline The blacking for shoes that I have seen usually say shoe blacking. I don't think all of them were but the ones I have seen were. Those are stove blacking bottles. It was a greasy slimy goo that was applyed with a rag when the stove was cold. When the stove got hot again it baked in and stunck like hell. It was to keep them from rusting. I used to own a hardware and feed store and there was a case of the Acme brand stove polish in the back with alot of other small antique items. I gave some to my dad and some to my brother for there wood burning heaters. They put it on and lit the heaters and filled there homed with a horrable stinch. It was funny as hell to me but not to my mom and sister n law. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 3

RE: Blacking bottles - 2/17/2009 2:54:36 PM    #1twin   Posts: 751 Joined: 5/25/2006 From: Biloxi Ms Status: offline Thank ya'll for the info      Marvin (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 4

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