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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.

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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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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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16 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

 

 

 


I suspect they will be the  Black Country Metalworks ones.

 

 

 

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

Yes, so do I, as the advert says that they are.

They're painted by "AKJ"; whether that's a single artist or a company, I don't know.

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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!

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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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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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