Dull Tool Dim Bulb Colors of the Month Lettuce Green and Princess Blue Artnamel

There is no date on this Cochran Artnamel salesman sample, but one source indicates 1930s, more or less.  Hmm. A shame, as this seemingly defunct brand had a good name.  Artnamel!  I like it.  I would use a product called Artnamel to paint my little models(if I had any) and what-have-you(s?) and I used a trademark search to see if it is available. It is!  My scan was brief and I am no lawyer, but it seems to be another trade name in the graveyard of color.

Antique Colors of the West Coast Turn of the Century NITROKOTE

Don't paint it, NITROKOTE it!  W.P. Fuller put out Nitrokote in the early 1900s.  Fuller was the largest paint supplier on the West Coast.  I guess you could say he was the Fuller Brush Man with a painting brush.  Today when you see old paint on furniture and objects from the Pacific coast, it might have been Nitrokoted!

Salesman Sample color brochure Nitrokote Paint Collection Jim Linderman

Pure Color Jap-A-Lac Paint from Glidden circa 1920 Salesman Sample

Jap-a-Lac has been a "household word" since 1898, but I don't recall hearing it around my house.  Glidden might have been heard, but only on the television. Glidden was founded in Columbus, OH in 1875.  It is yet another company which has gone through buyouts and mergers so as to be unrecognizable, but it still exists. Today it is part of a conglomerate.  When the founder Mr. Glidden retired at age 85, his son took over and gobbled up competitors. Today, Glidden is but a "division" of something even larger.  Third largest paint company in the country, but the parent company is even larger.  One PPG now owns the drips of paint in 70 countries.  They even own "Transition Lens" which darken with the sun.

Glidden Jap-o-Lac enamel paint folding paint salesman sample circa 1920  Collection Jim Linderman 

Boydell Paint Salesman Sample Card

Early (and lovely) "paint chip" sample card for the Boydell Prepared Paint company.  Boydell Paints were founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1865.   Interestingly, the paints were here distributed by Crawford and Travis Druggists.  Drug stores have come full circle...the Walgreen's not far from here tries to carry everything in addition to drugs.  

Boydell Brothers Paint Salesman Sample Card.  Circa 1900?  Collection Jim Linderman

Call to the Colors Paint Set by Gold Medal Transogram

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Call to the Colors Paint
To celebrate the inauguration,  I would love to paint you a perfect picture of harmony...but I don't want to mess up my perfect cakes of star paint!

Call to the Colors Paint Set circa 1940  Collection Jim Linderman

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Buyer Beware Folk Art This Little Piggy Went to Market

All sold within the last few weeks on eBay.  These would fall into the "antiques made while you wait" category.

This little piggy went to market,

This little piggy stayed home,

This little piggy had roast beef,

This little piggy had none,

And this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home.

Wooden Clown Folk Art Ring Toss on the Nose Paddle Wild Paint

Carved wood handle ring toss game Hand-painted Circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

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