Show OPEN DEALING IN PAINT buying paint used to be jike the proverbial buying of pig in a poke mixtures in which chalk ground rock etc predominated were marked and sold as pure white lead the deception pot being apparent uny the paint and the paint ing were paid for this deception la still practiced but we have learned to expose it easily national lead company the larg est makers of genuine pure white lead realizing 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 lead may be determined and furnished a blow pipe free to every one who would write them for it this action was in itself a guaranty of the purity of na lead company s white lead As the result of this open dealing the paint buyer today to day haa only him self to blame it he Is defrauded for test outfit and valuable booklet on painting address national lead corn pany woodbridge biag new york |