Old Town paint dating

[mmmalmberg]

I'm guessing 1970-ish just by the graphic design but I really have no idea. I sent a sample to George Kirby and he's matched it. Then I noticed on the label it has the pigment recipe! I just want to let him know the approximate year for his files.

 

[1905Gerrish]

I used a quart of the exact paint last year. Worked great!

 

[mmmalmberg]

I'm going to put a couple coats of Kirby's match down first and finish with this so I have original paint showing and some leftover for touch-up down the road.

 

[mmmalmberg]

I used a quart of the exact paint last year. Worked great!

Hey you don't happen to still have the can do you? It might have the recipe more legible than mine.

 

[Dan Lindberg]

This might be opening a can of worms but, back a few years ago when I was coming up with an acceptable color for some house stain,
I learned that there are 3 maybe 4 color systems in use, which use different "recipes" to get the same color.

I have no idea what system OT or their supplier might have used.

Dan
(I bought 12-13 qts of colorant to mix with 40 gals of base stain.
It was a lot of work.)

 

[1905Gerrish]

I did my best

 

[Benson Gray]

I can't give you an exact date but I was working at Old Town in the early 1970s and one of my jobs was to take the labels off Woolsey paint cans and replace them with those labels. The site at https://www.woolseypaint.com/ may have more details.

Benson

 

[mmmalmberg]

I did my best

Wow, that's a completely different recipe. Probably no way of knowing when they switched and which was new. They may have changed back and forth depending on pigment availability and pricing at the moment.

 

[mmmalmberg]

I can't give you an exact date but I was working at Old Town in the early 1970s and one of my jobs was to take the labels off Woolsey paint cans and replace them with those labels. The site at https://www.woolseypaint.com/ may have more details.

Benson

So 70's would be right then. Were the colors mixed at Woolsey?

 

[Benson Gray]

Were the colors mixed at Woolsey?

I believe that everything (except the label swap) was done at Woolsey.

Benson

 

[mmmalmberg]

I believe that everything (except the label swap) was done at Woolsey.

Benson

Thanks Benson!

 

[Dan Lindberg]

This reminds me of way back when, I worked for a short time in the stockroom of a company that make film processing equipment, Pako.
All very expensive machines and parts. As typical, they also sold all the maintenance materials for the machines, including gear oil for the gear boxes.
This gear lube was sold in small 1 pt cans for several $$'s, after being repacked from 55 gal barrels, it was standard Union 76 gear lube, that you could get for maybe $2 a gal at the time.

I can't give you an exact date but I was working at Old Town in the early 1970s and one of my jobs was to take the labels off Woolsey paint cans and replace them with those labels.
Benson