Tom LaHood Gas & Oil, Signs, Advertising & Americana Timed-Auction
Bidding Open Now, Bids Close on Sunday, August 23rd at 7pm
The Tom LaHood Collection brings together an impressive mix of gas and oil advertising, petroliana, automotive memorabilia, antiques and Americana across 283 lots. Tom had a good eye, and it shows.
Petroliana collectors will find hundreds of vintage oil and lubricant cans spanning Mobil, Quaker State, Phillips 66, Standard Oil, Veedol, Rislone and dozens more, along with rare porcelain and tin signs including a near-mint 1940 Delco Batteries sign, a 70-inch Firestone horizontal porcelain sign, a 10-foot Standard Oil Filling Station sign from Indiana, a U.S. Royal Tires embossed sign and a double-sided Willard Batteries sign. Additional highlights include the MCA Sign Co. Veedol Motor Oil cloth banner, the Rislone Karbout pinup girl advertising banner, an STP service station bumper protector display, vintage service station caps from the Nebraska Clothing Co., original Phillips 66 coveralls, a Borg Warner automotive tune-up parts cabinet, a working Gilbarco Calco-Meter gas pump with Mobilgas globe, antique curved glass china cabinets, vintage Lionel and American Flyer train sets, rare brewery tin lithos including a Buffalo Brewing Company self-framed tin lithograph c. 1900 and a Tennessee Brewing Company Lady Columbia piece c. 1893, a rare Hotel Benjamin Franklin Philadelphia porcelain sign and much more. All bidding is online via Proxibid and all lots close Sunday, August 23rd.
