This rare Vogelsang spray can was the standard graffiti spray can available in every hardware store in Germany in the 1980s. From around 1989 it was renamed Dupli Color.

Standard German spray can from the end of the 1980s, price at the time: approx. 8-9 D-Marks. The color circles on the logo come from the US brand Krylon. SparVar was a Krylon licensed product by the German company SprayColor. The New York writers sprayed with the legendary brands Krylon and Rustoleum.

This can, designed for hobby use, was produced by the company Peter Kwasny GmbH in the town next to the company Vogelsang (Ultra Color). Better quality than SparVar, it was soon offered cheaply in hip hop shops alongside SparVar. Other brands were mostly stolen and used less.

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These car paint cans from Peter Kwasny GmbH delivered high-gloss metallic colors. One could choose the color of common car models from a catalog. It had very opaque colors that were otherwise unavailable. Because of the high price of around 15 D-Marks, these were not very common among graffiti writers.

This very opaque paint from Caparol comes from a wall paint manufacturer with a small range of spray cans at the time. It was more likely to be available in painting supply stores. Rarely used by graffiti writers due to the high price and almost always stolen.

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Since this can could also be used on Styrofoam, it could be found in art supply stores. Prohibitively expensive at around 20 D-Mark per can, ultra opaque and with special, exclusive colors, the Marabu was actually only used for graffiti when it was stolen.

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This small can is representative of the many hundreds of cans in different sizes for hobby use that have existed over time without playing a major role in graffiti.

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