overall: 14.8 cm x 7.5 cm; 5 13/16 in x 2 15/16 in
Object Name:
Pitcairn Compo-Drier
Place made:
United States
Date made:
USA
Description:
1/8 gal. tin-plate container of Pitcairn’s Compo-Drier. The Pitcairn Varnish Co. was doing business in Milwaukee, Wisc., and Newark, N.J. in 1915. By the early 1920s it was affiliated with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
Ref: Paints Varnishes and Brushes Their History Manufacture and Uses (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 1923), p. 66.
