sought-after ! Vintage Tin of Shinola Shoe Polish with Original Wax

Vintage tin of Shinola 7-Day Shoe Polish in Brown with the original paste. Originally priced at 33 cents. Net Weight 1 1/2 ounces. The Shinola Company was founded in New York in 1877 as the American Chemical Manufacturing and Mining Company. It produced the polish under a sequence of different owners until 1960 when it became defunct. The brand name was acquired by the retail company Shinola in 2011. "Shinola" was a trade name and trademark for boot polish. It was in-demand during the first half of the twentieth century and entered the American lexicon in the phrase, "You don't know s--t from Shinola" meaning to be ignorant."