Gas Globe & Automobilia Insurance
Coverage for glass gas-pump globes, oil cans, cans and tins, license plates, and broader automobilia — the breakable, highly collectible pieces a standard policy under-insures.
Globes, Oil Cans & Automobilia
Beyond pumps and signs, petroliana collections fill with the smaller, breakable, intensely collectible pieces: glass gas-pump globes, lenses, oil cans and bottles, grease and additive tins, license plates, thermometers, and dealership automobilia. Individually modest or genuinely rare, together they add up — and glass and early lithographed tin are exactly the items standard policies handle worst.
The Fragility Problem
- Glass globes and lenses break — in storage, on the shelf, and in transit. Rare one-piece and figural globes can be worth thousands each.
- Lithographed tin and oil cans are condition-graded; dents, scratches, and rust drop value fast.
- Display accidents — a shelf collapse or a knocked-over case can damage dozens of pieces at once.
- Theft of small, high-value, easily-carried items.
What Globe & Automobilia Coverage Includes
- Agreed value on rare globes and key automobilia
- Blanket coverage for the broader run of cans, tins, and smalls
- Accidental breakage of glass globes and lenses
- Theft at home and at shows
- Transit protection for shows, swaps, and shipping
One Collection, One Program
We bring your globes and automobilia under the same scheduled, agreed-value program as your signs and pumps — so the whole collection is documented and covered consistently, and a single shelf accident doesn't become an uninsured loss.
What's Covered
Frequently Asked Questions
The rarest cans and figural globes are scheduled individually at agreed value; the larger run of common cans and tins is usually covered under a blanket limit. We structure it so both the headline pieces and the broader collection are protected.
Accidental glass and globe breakage is a covered peril on a specialty collectibles policy — one of the main reasons globe collectors carry it, since glass is excluded or under-limited on standard homeowners forms.