Scott Benjamin & Wayne Henderson
We’ve spent over 100 years (50 years each) photographing, authenticating, and documenting original gas pump globes, porcelain signs, oil cans, and service station advertising. Our goal is simple: to educate collectors, protect from fakes and keep real history alive.
100,000+ original photos
100+ years research
Our Story
The petroleum collectibles hobby grew faster than the record-keeping. By the time serious money started chasing rare pump globes and station-branded signs, fakes and “fantasy pieces” were already everywhere. A lot of misinformation became “truth” just because it got repeated at swap meets.
So we started doing the slow work: tracking where pieces came from, photographing them in detail, comparing lens print quality, studying color drift, and interviewing original station owners and families.
What you’ll find in our research
- High-res photography of authenticated originals
- Known variants & production runs
- Rarity and value guidance
- How to spot modern reproductions before you spend real money
We want new collectors to feel confident. We want serious collectors to have proof. And we want the actual history of these stations — their colors, their branding, their identities — preserved.
Scott Benjamin
Scott has documented more than 7,500 original gas pump globes.
Scott, a globe collector himself, specializes in early and unusual globes and Sinclair globes among many others.
Wayne Henderson
Wayne is a researcher and historian with deep archives on gas and oil brand identities, logo changes, and station rollouts.
As of this writing Wayne is commemorating fifty years since he found his first globe, and has long been involved in collecting all gasoline marketing memorabilia.
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