Thursday, May 2, 2024

 Restoration of  GWR pattern, point oiling can.

This item, I found as a youth in a gangers on Chicken Curve just north east of Winchcombe.

It formed part of a museum collection in the early days of the GWSR.

Sadly, I pulled the much damaged item out of the skip at Toddington last year.


  

Here it is looking much happier after fashioning a new handle by flatening out a bucket handle and soldering it to the can.

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