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Looking for any help and info on Winchester Oil. Looking to find all the different cans and bottles f Winchester oil. Plus any info on them. I have seen the discussion on the Green paper label but that is about all the info I could find. If you have any info or a lead on a missing cans I have let me know.
I’m not sure what information might be available out there on it. I would think Jenifer and Gary Gole, might be someone to contact, as their into almost everything Winchester, unlike most Collectors. Pretty sure they advertise in the Winchester Collector Magazine.
The Winchester Rarities book, by Tom Webster, had on page, 201, in his book the only published information that I’ve ever seen, with a salesman’s sample showing a nice kit, with a couple oil cans and grease tubes, besides advertisements, from years ago.
Anthony
I labeled your photo with some information, as I generally understand it. Depending on how far and deep into collecting these the rabbit hole can keep going pretty far. For example, I’ve seen several different dated labels for the 1906-1918 Glass Oil Bottle, and that’s just one bottle. Example dates being anything from July 1906, to June 1914, to September 1918, etc. Then you can get into collecting the counter displays, the advertisements for the products the list goes on and on.
For whatever reason the collecting community loves the green and red labeled metal cans. But I’m of the opinion they’re actually quite common not rare but just in high demand.
In my opinion the rarest item in the photo is the shipping crate. You don’t see to many of them around.
One item that goes way back in Winchester “Gun Grease”. They started selling it in 1891. So it has a lot of different variations to collect.
I have a one of the large shipping crate for the Gun Grease tubes and Its the only one I’ve come across. Inside of it was packed smaller boxes of 10 tubes in a boxes. Until they switched to the cardboard boxes.
Jennifer & Gary Cole have a nice article on the topic and I tend to agree with all their points made in it within an order of magnitude.
https://winchestercollector.org/magazines/202203/38/
Other than their article and the previous mentioned book. I don’t know of any other published information out there.
Sincerely,
Maverick
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Maverick,
Once again, a great follow up, and very informative information. I forgot about that article in the Magazine.
Thanks! 
Anthony
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