While grubbing about at the antiques fair last weekend I spied this badly beat-up tin tucked away on the bottom of a shelf. Despite its poor condition it had some great graphics and text, and when I looked a little closer I was delighted to discover it was a tin for "Nokorode" (no-corrode) soldering paste. As I do some metalsmithing on occasion and greatly enjoy the mangling of common words for advertising purposes, I thought it would be a fun thing to have.
When I picked it up it felt strangely heavy, so I looked inside - it is still half-full of soldering paste! I don't know if soldering paste has an expiry date, but I don't think I'll try it anyway. And by try it, that means soldering or eating it.
It was made by the M.W. Dunton Company in Providence, Rhode Island, probably in the 1920s. M.W. Dunton was in business for nearly 100 years before being purchased and absorbed by Rectorseal in 1998. More info on M.W. Dunton is available here.
wow, to think it has been in that tin all those years. Yummy!
Posted by: Peldyn | April 22, 2009 at 07:50 AM