By Garland Pollard
NEW YORK – Sapolin was once a great decorative paint brand; like Rustoleum they specialized in unique colors for metals anduses other than walls. Here, a can that’s about 20 years old. It’s main ingredients are listed as xylene and toluene, toxic AND flammable but certainly able to make great gold leaf.
Sarah Chiffriller of PetalsSarah of Richmond, Virginia had this tiny can of the paint in her floral and design studio; it was given to her by a neighbor.
Curious if Sapolin Paints are still around; apparently their building was in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Carol Smith // Dec 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm
my dad worked for Sapolin paint from the 1950′s through the lat 70′s. The factory building in Brooklyn is now a storage company. I believe another company bought the name and is manufacturing under that name, but it’s not the same. Sapolin also made Woolsey Marine paint.
2 Ronald de Groot // Dec 13, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I have a can of Sapolin as shown in your picture,
can you let me know how much it is worth.
Thank you
Ron
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