The Unauthorized Guide to Collecting Sohio: Bring Your Car Up to Standard [Paperback]

W. Clark Miller (Author), Sabra Sonewald (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2000

At last, the first book exclusively devoted to collectibles from Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio). The author has created a colorful gallery of Sohio cans and other containers, signs, toys, giveaways, and a complete reference to Sohio's diverse line of gas globes. These collectibles range from commonly found items to very rare, even unique finds. The book also provides a great deal of insight into the fascinating information surrounding these collectibles, including a detailed history of Sohio, a listing of its many trademarks, and a discussion of the thirty-three other descendants of the Standard Oil Company. This wonderful resource will fill a missing slot in the library of all serious historians of gas stations or automobilia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764311034
• ISBN-13: 978-0764311031
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #971,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference for gas station items, October 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Unauthorized Guide to Collecting Sohio: Bring Your Car Up to Standard (Paperback)

Excellent source of history and information. I just ordered the new book by the same author and have heard nothing but good reviews. (COLLECTING OIL CANS)

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT SOHIO GUIDE, May 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Unauthorized Guide to Collecting Sohio: Bring Your Car Up to Standard (Paperback)

This is an excellent guide to all of the Sohio memoribilia. Anyone who enjoys perusing antique stores for petroliana will enjoy this book -- especially since it is the first of its kind for Sohio merchandise!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nick Nack price guide for parlor collectors., May 24, 2002

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Robert Savage "savagewebb" (Madison, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unauthorized Guide to Collecting Sohio: Bring Your Car Up to Standard (Paperback)

The book looks very promising at first glance. You get a 4 page history (nothing here). Chapter two is 50 pages of oil cans , moth spray and home drip oil cans dated through 1989. Mainly 20/30 buck stuff.(moth balls and parrifin,WOW).After pages of Maps, credit cards,calenders,salt & pepper shakers and ice scrapers, now the meat.Pumps and globes.I was ready.18 common globes pictured, I can accept that.Two whole gas pumps pictured.(50's Tokheim,wow).A small globe list.1/3 page(no pics).Then 70 pages of signs, patches, uniforms,toys. No mention of years of pumps built specifically for Sohio,the hundreds of offshute globes used. Islander lights,air machines, the stuff you drove up to are not to be found here. All the unique to Sohio station things in the 30's,40's,50's. Not pictured here.If your looking for that memory of pulling into an old "modern" Sohio,this book is a blackhole. Great icing, NO CAKE!