My new can

[junior]

Bought myself this can recently online unseen. Very happy with the price I paid for it. It was advertised as being about fifty years old, but other than that the seller didn't really seem to know what it was, where it came from etc...

 

What are people's thoughts? I know Taylor Brothers was a business on Trafford Park by the Bridgewater Canal, but don't know why they'd have a can painted. There's also Taylors boatyard in Chester, but I'm not sure they were ever known as Taylor Bros?

 

Could be just a couple of brothers with the surname Taylor that decided to get a can painted I suppose.

[Stilllearning]

2 minutes ago, junior said:

Bought myself this can recently online unseen. Very happy with the price I paid for it. It was advertised as being about fifty years old, but other than that the seller didn't really seem to know what it was, where it came from etc...

 

What are people's thoughts? I know Taylor Brothers was a business on Trafford Park by the Bridgewater Canal, but don't know why they'd have a can painted. There's also Taylors boatyard in Chester, but I'm not sure they were ever known as Taylor Bros?

 

Could be just a couple of brothers with the surname Taylor that decided to get a can painted I suppose.

That's a very attractive can, but I can't help with the history, sorry.

[zenataomm]

The roses look a tad naïve to my eye. 

[Tam & Di]

1 hour ago, zenataomm said:

The roses look a tad naïve to my eye. 

The lettering is very amateur as well. Lots of boatmen painted their own and they would generally have that sort of appearance, but 50 years old only takes it back to mid-seventies and there were not a lot of working boatment left at that time.

[Tonka]

Hope that has not been pinched from the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port