Show OPEN DEALING IN PAINT buying paint used to be like the proverbial buying of a pig in ft poke mixtures in which chalk chaler ground rock etc predominated were marked and sold as puro pure white lead the deception not being apparent until the paint and the painting were nere paid for or this deception la is still practiced but vw have learned to expose it easily national lead company the largest makers of genuine pure white lead mal izing the injustice that was being done to both property owners and honest paint manufacturers set about to make paint buying safe they first adopted a trade mark the now famous dutch boy painter and put this trademark as a guaranty of purity on every package of their white lead they then set about familiarizing the public with the blowpipe test by which the purity and genuineness of white load lead may be determined and furnished a blowpipe free to every one who would write them for it this action was in itself a guaranty of the purity of national lead companas Comp anys white lead As the result or of this open dealing the paint buyer to today day has only himself to blame it if he Is defrauded for test outfit and valuable booklet on painting address national lead company woodbridge new york |