Got this at a local auction. The squares are 1". The tube had finely ground powder in it. There was also some thin tissue paper and a roll of caps included? I have my guess, what's yours?

For some reason, I can't get 2 pictures to post at one time. Operator head spacing issue.

bohemianway wrote on Nov 19^th, 2021 at 6:50pm:


precisely!

Joe but there is no pin stripling on that car and if it Her's. It will only be the Chicken's in their Chicken house that will be doing any of the laying.

My grandfather's profession was restoring turn of the century steam automobiles. (He was born in 1900 and the cars ranged from 1898 to 1908.) In addition to the metal and wood fabricating (tasks not unlike dealing with single shots of that era), he was a one man shop and did his own painting/detailing of the finished projects which included pin striping. But, he did it with custom trimmed brushes and a very steady hand, with little flourishes and fleur de lis in the corners and ends of the stripes.

As an adolescent in the early 60's I learned to drive on the 1898 Locomobile -  tiller steering, hand brake, hand throttle and all. No wonder I gravitated toward 19th century single shot rifles!

He decried the molestation of 30's vintage cars in the creation of hot rods. He was a preservationist through and through.

Yard art, the crusher or custom hot rod?  I'll go with the hot rod.   

Waylaid. I didn't say what kind of laid.

It's a pinstiper. 

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By golly that's it. Wonder why the old boy had it in his reloading supplies.