Time cones?

[iggyks]

I saw something on the old forum about a find of offgrade Time cones... dunno if that fits the topic? Wish i had one!

[Longhorn Mike]

There was a large find of Time cones from a small town west of Fort Worth around 1985. A couple of non-collectors found hundreds of them. Some of them were pretty nice, many horrible, but all had varying degrees of humidity on them and the guys who found them gave them a bath in some sort of thick shellac. Every Time cone out there except for a small handful (maybe 10?) came from this find.

They are usually available at the large shows (there were a few at Canvention this year) and show up from "Time to Time" on eBay. Here is a photo of a typical "find" can and one not from the find that appeared on eBay last year.

- Mike

[Leon]

I think Beercanman Steve G. had a few & could possibly add some insight? LEON.

[Randy Karasek]

The following is from older Rustlings information in letter from Michael Lewandowski (small blurb about Time cones highlighted with red box). I posted the entire page because of interesting comment at end of the first paragraph, and pictures at the bottom of some early Rusty Bunch members.

[Longhorn Mike]

I saw them when they were first shown for sale. There were a lot more than 85. I would say it was closer to 150 - 200.

- Mike

[Sea Monkey]

I received one in the RB "pot luck" box a couple of years ago.......

[beercanman]

I think I bought about 30 of them from the same guy who I got the Schlitz collection from (I think near Longview TX). Most looked very similar to Longhorn Mike's photo above. Lacquered and missing plenty of red/gold. Towards the end I was letting them go for $5-10 each. Saw an ongrade example when at Canvention in KC ... an absolute thing of beauty.

[Rockbob]

It looks like the can from the "find" is a bulb top? The non find can is a standard hi pro.

[Ziphippie]

Looks like the wrong top was painted and placed on the non-find time. Bjorn