Sta-Lox Bricks

Front and back views of Vince's Sta-Lox Bricks can

Not long after I made yesterday's post Vince called me up and told me he had an old Sta-Lox Building Bricks can in his garage. Not the bricks, just the can. He mentioned that he too had a set of these bricks when he was a kid, and loved building things with it. This isn't the can to that set, but one acquired decades later at a vintage goods store in Toronto.

Even so, the can itself is quite interesting. First, there's the list of pieces in this set: 600 bricks in assorted shapes; 14 doors and windows; 9 sidewalks, stairs, awnings and gardens; 2 sheets of roofing. And then there's that little extra piece of information: the Peter-Austin Manufacturing Company was a division of Kelton Corporation Limited, also of Toronto. I don't know what year this set was sold, but maybe by that time Peter-Austin had been acquired by Kelton. More questions for the internet.