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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402585824963?hash=item5dbbfc2ec3:g:HVcAAOSwP6RgXho7&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4HnyxG5VBFSprRaHzHdEDN12L%2Bt2c6mhtrP7JUTVXQKi2lf1ANAhoOTYuE2U5YPNeZ3VP%2FAOSxYIqB1y85ej5l26mIJKtfI3bDFDwdyY3WRE1buq%2B9eWC8jEifZRRl%2ByI02VryFHZJoMmwaCmMMYcXGPkYNMqCYo3hrzcWbsR0uP%2Fdz1PRjsmaBquZi6wvymgZMufVVTJR9v8gnAS2UQjVhIevS1i3l0MCB7fBr2M87JSeupLDWjl9yPpPfpL9do%2FXPfwCa59%2BgHFPhQNVJ3jp3po8r7VPBANt084wOyLLbQ|tkp%3ABk9SR4TuiOzfYQ

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1, 2 and 3 Gallon can's with liquored solid brass

’Shaftsbury’ classic watering can

 

Well I hope his watering cans are better than his grammar/spelling!!

At that price, I'd want solid gold with diamond insets.

Athy Veteran II

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It doesn't look bad value for a set of three painted cans. Our three-gallon model cost about £90 from Jane Selkirk about 15 years ago, and that's steel, not brass.

BilgePump Experienced

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So say £120, £170 and £210 for the 1,2,3 gallon. then deduct ebay fees of about 14%, price of decent cans, paint, labour, packing, packing materials etc and then add on high inflation. 

alan_fincher Veteran II

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16 minutes ago, Athy said:

It doesn't look bad value for a set of three painted cans. Our three-gallon model cost about £90 from Jane Selkirk about 15 years ago, and that's steel, not brass.

 

They are mostly steel - only the bits left unpainted are brass.  (Ad if they are left unpainted, there is no time or effort spent by the painter!......)

 

25 minutes ago, MtB said:

I bet the bare cans unpainted cost £100 each...

 


I suspect they will be the  Black Country Metalworks ones.

 

£65 for a 2 gallon.

 

https://www.blackcountrymetalworks.co.uk/shaftsbury-classic-watering-can-polished-brass-medium.htm

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LadyG Veteran II

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I think they look very smart, are they hand painted, could I have a go, I have a galvanised jug which I use for flowers, it's going rusty inside, so I'll have to clean it up and give it a spray, inside and out? What spray would do, maybe a graphite radiator paint, which I have?

I have a roses type stool which I fished out of the cut, I would not say it's a professional paint job, I don't think I could do much better, but I could use it for a stencil.

Do I use Humbrol enamels?

 

 

 

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magnetman Veteran II

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35 minutes ago, Rebotco said:
1, 2 and 3 Gallon can's with liquored solid brass

’Shaftsbury’ classic watering can

 

Well I hope his watering cans are better than his grammar/spelling!!

At that price, I'd want solid gold with diamond insets.

I'd be wanting them full of finest Highland Malt. 

They look shockingly naff with the brass handles. Very infra dig!

Nightwatch Veteran II

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I wouldn’t pay £500 for them. I don’t have £500. But to a non traditional expert they are not too bad in my view. I would feel inclined to paint the handles.

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3 minutes ago, magnetman said:

I'd be wanting them full of finest Highland Malt. 

I bet you would!

1+2+3=6 gallons

6x8 pints to the gallon = 48

48 x 568ml = over 25 litres

Single malt generally costs more than £20 per litre

Cut price malt and free Buckby cans.

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alan_fincher Veteran II

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1 minute ago, LadyG said:

I think they look very smart, are they hand painted, could I have a go.....

 

To me personally the main issue with this listing is not whether the £500 asking price can be justified on the grounds of acquiring the undecorated cans, and then the time and materials spent in painting them.

 

If I buy a piece of painted canal ware that is not historic, but is an attempt to copy old styles by a much more recent painter, then I expect it to have at least a faintly close resemblance to pieces by genuine old canal painters.  This still allows for a mass of styles, as there always was a mass of styles.

However pieces like these cans don't put me in mind of any recognisable style of painting.

This means that to me, the value of these items is a bit less than the raw cans, as I would have to strip them back to the galvanising before passing them to someone who knew what hey were doing to paint from scratch.

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"Buckby" cans they are not either - the handles are the most obviously incorrect item for cans from (or even in the style of) those from Buckby.

 

Tam

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I know the seller. Years ago he asked me about valuing a water can a family member had painted. I told him how long it would take me and he responded “ It took about a week “ I assume that that included drying time etc. I’m afraid that the Black Country Metalworks cans are a poor substitute for the real thing, the ones I’ve worked on are put together abroad by folk who have no knowledge of originals. Why a company based in Oswestry claims a West Midland origin, I’ve no idea.

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