How many hog oilers is too many hog oilers? Dan Laurie, who, with his nephew Zac Laurie, has amassed a collection of more than 200 hog oilers, struggles to take the question seriously.
“We’re still actively looking for hog oilers,” he says. “I will buy any oiler.” Zac, on the other hand, would be happy to tap the brakes. “I keep trying to get him to quit buying common oilers,” he says. “If it’s not rare, I don’t want it. But at the end of the day, we will never have them all. There are just too many.”
Some of the pieces in the collection are duplicates, and some will be spun off. “We do get rid of some,” Dan allows. “But if we find a broken one with a base, we’ll buy it if it means we can put it together with a part we already have to make a complete one.”
A display meant to be seen
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