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Posted by wyndyacre z6B SW Ont. (My Page) on

Mon, Feb 4, 08 at 21:54

I'm in Ontario, Canada and collect antique watering cans. I recently found a beauty...a very elegantly shaped can with a lovely rose still intact. Embossed in the metal on the top is a bat with outstretch wings and the word BAT in a circle. Above that it says 7.5 TGL (total gross litres?).

I have never seen a can like this before in Canada and am thinking it may be British or perhaps a European country.
Canada went metric about 35 years ago and measured watering cans in gallons before that.

I haven't been able to find any info on the internet. I would appreciate any thoughts or information anyone might have.

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Posted by shrubs_n_bulbs z8/9 UK (My Page) on
Tue, Feb 5, 08 at 16:54

I doubt it is British. Litres are a fairly new thing and the comma decimal point is a continental thing, especially French.

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Posted by wyndyacre z6B SW Ont. (My Page) on
Tue, Feb 12, 08 at 8:44

Thanks shrubs n bulbs.

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Posted by inkognito (My Page) on
Wed, Mar 26, 08 at 11:20

see the link below this is a blog of a woman in Paris and the picture shows a watering can just like yours if I am not mistaken. The unique thing about this can is the curved handle that is in-line with the spout, check it out.

Here is a link that might be useful: watering can

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