Got my first can of real black powder

[Blair]

I at one time had a large number of the red colored plastic cap tins.
I had also found a number of the hard rubber tins from the time period. (These don't normally survive today unless they are within a presentation case)
Removing the paper label, I would spray paint the plastic with a flat black and then coat that with a clear satin finish poly. (I do this with the actual "tin" cap containers as well to make them look more period correct)
Should the inside plastic cans still be a bit more red than you may like, darken it with some brown leather dye.
Just a suggestion on my part, but it makes up for a nice display.
My best,
 Blair

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

I used to use a lot of Elephant brand powder. Only have one can left, with just a little bit rattling around at the bottom of the can. You can see by the date stamp that this can was made in May of 2001. Don't really remember if it fouled any worse than Goex. No, I ain't giving it away, it is part of my BP can collection. 

[Major 2]

Howdy

I used to use a lot of Elephant brand powder. Only have one can left, with just a little bit rattling around at the bottom of the can. You can see by the date stamp that this can was made in May of 2001. Don't really remember if it fouled any worse than Goex. No, I ain't giving it away, it is part of my BP can collection. 

Kinda funny you say BP can collection...I didn't think collection at the time....I had coupla different Goex cans,  an old DuPont can
I also had a old keg Hazzard Powder ( was movie prop ) empty of course.
The Elephant can has powder in it so it was stored elsewhere.... my Barn fire in 2011 took the cans mentioned above.
So aside from KIK plastic & the Elephant can no "collection "   

Maybe I should , look to starting one 

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[Arizona Trooper]

Meteor was made by Curtis & Harvey. As I recall it was way slower than Dupont, but the fouling tended to stay soft. Elephant is pretty slow too. In my Merrill carbine, 45 gr. of Elephant FF went through the chrono at 708 fps. 33 gr. of Dupont FFF went 765, which is about what Swiss FFF does today.