Quaker State Vintage Advertising

Collecting gas and oil memorabilia has become a huge market in the last couple of decades. One rather difficult company to find items for is the old Quaker State advertising. I find that remarkable since the company has been around for about 150 years.

Perhaps it is more difficult to find these petroliana items because the company didn't do a lot of promotion for the public. They generally were just the oil or auto product that was offered at a gas station and didn't do much in the way of ad campaigns with promotional type items. I'm sure many of us remember seeing what is now referred to as the tombstone sign, like the one on the left, at many of the Gas Stations that we visited.

The company does have an interesting and long history. In this lens I will offer some of the history and ideas of what to look for to add to your collection and possible ways to find items.