The pecten went silver for this one. A gray scallop on a red disc, ringed in chrome yellow, with AVIATION cut straight across the middle of the shell on a plate of its own — the only Shell mark in the set where the shell gets interrupted by a word.
Printed on a Gildan 18500 heavy blend hooded sweatshirt — 8 oz cotton-poly, classic fit, double-lined hood with a color-matched drawcord and a front pouch pocket. Tubular knit with no side seams. Tear-away label. Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.
Aviation fuel was a separate product with separate specifications, and companies signed it separately so nobody put the wrong grade in an aircraft. The silver-gray treatment sets it apart from the tan and cream of the ground-fuel pecten, and the small red diamonds at three and nine o'clock are the sort of detail that turns up on airfield signage and almost nowhere else.
The perfect gift for the pilot with a taste for prewar airfields, the collector who works aviation petroliana specifically, the restorer with a hangar wall to fill, the dad who did his hours in a taildragger, and anyone who wants the version of the shell almost nobody recognizes.
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