Walking up the lane from Byres Road, we stopped off at the retro shop in the green hut to look at old Marion Donaldson dresses and then we passed by the big junk shop. Marion found some nice industrial china things that were like bottles with a pouring lip and I found this tin of paint for £5. Judging by the style of the label it must be around one hundred years old and ....
it has never been opened!
It was really heavy to carry home. It is not at all like modern tins of paint, more like a milk-churn in shape. Maybe you had to use a tin-opener to open it? Look at the trade mark: it has windmills because it is made in Holland and a Japanese lady to suggest that the paint is as good as the best Japan lacquer finish.
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