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November 4, 2025 - 1:09 am
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Looking for any advertisement pieces for gun oil. Especially Winchester. Looking for Counter displays. Anything related to Winchester Oil or gun oil. Always looking for cans or bottles I don’t have.

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Matt Stevenson

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FYI Not for sale but for your info. Don

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Matt, current Wards Auction has a few.

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Matt, I did some research on this oil bottle and found the patent for the special designed box was issued Jan. 1840. Consequently this bottle  and box could be 85 years old. Don

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86Win said
Matt, I did some research on this oil bottle and found the patent for the special designed box was issued Jan. 1840. Consequently this bottle  and box could be 85 years old. Don
  

I’d say that tracks for 1940, for sure. 

I gather 1840 is a typo, as WRACo didn’t even exist in 1840.

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You are right, it was a slip of my finger. 1940 is correct. I am a one fingered typist. Don

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Yes it was made during the war. I have a magazine article that talks about different company changing things for the War. Winchester started to use glass bottles to help with the war time.

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There is one for sale on ebay right now that is really nice but no box or wrapper like mine. Don

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