The last visible gas pump I sold was to a man starting his own petroleum museum right on his property. It sold for over $4,000. I try to have items for the collector starting out, ...

The 10-gallon visible gas pump with a built-in oil dispense r – the top lot of the five-day sale – was included among 32 other gas pumps and nearly 300 gas and oil signs, ...

The Bowser Co. in Fort Wayne, Indiana, built the first gas pumps in the 1880s, according to “Collectors Weekly.” By 1898, pumps could pull fuel from an underground tank.