Gonna hold off for now Pat, I may have stumbled onto something good......
I have been researching this cooler today. I took this pic while at the Schmidt Coke Museum

I then found the auction results for the auction and found this link.
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9686243After looking over my cooler today the legs and the lid were originally black, The body was a off white color. It was painted over to what looks like me Latex paint. I am going to try and safely remove the latex paint to see what is underneath.
Joey