[johnbryanpeters]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-EARLY-1900s-SPERM-SEWING-MACHINE-BICYCLE-OIL-CORK-BOTTLE-Wm-F-NYE-/171720090718

 

[Quo Fan]

So you're selling off the bottle you bought new?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Shhh...

 

[jstuhlman]

It's how he made some extra cash on the side when he was a lad. What a rediscovery! Call teh history chanel!

 

[4130biker]

Just read a book about the whaleship Essex. Crazy "survival" story and fun to learn about the whaling industry of Nantucket in its heyday.
Half tempted to buy this shit.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I would but I'm buried in neat ancient curiosities.

 

[Quo Fan]

I would but I'm buried in neat ancient curiosities.

Stuff you bought new and just couldn't part with?

 

[Pesqueeb]

Is JBP Ishmael?

 

[syadasti]

Protip: Use supermarket sushi in a pinch if you can't find whale oil lube. Like whale it's enhanced with PCBs and other additives.

 

[Da Peach]

 

[JohnE]

"partial contents"?

Should do it just to have in the shop...

 

[kazlx]

I want it just so when I work on people's bikes I can tell them to go grab me 'that bottle'....

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Three bids on it and four days to go. Wonder what it'll sell for?

 

[jdcamb]

In the 90's they sold Slick 50 lube in a non Aerosol spray bottle at Kmart. Best bike lube ever. Weirdly always on sale. No Sperm whales were killed to make it. Not that I have anything wrong with that.