BROTHERHOOD TOBACCO’S AD CAMPAIGN HELPED BRIDGE CLASS WARFARE! One of my favorite advertising pieces from the early 1900s comes from The Brotherhood Tobacco brand. What I like about this advertisement is the brand clearly tried to demonstrate a point that no matter what your class or background was, their tobacco brand would be “The Tie…
Featured here is a beautiful tin lithographic sign featuring a semi-naked woman admiring a butterfly which has landed on her hand near a small brook. This sign advertises a very-well known local New York City area, mostly known for it’s nickname, The R&H Brewery. This brewery was a well known brewery and their…
The Telfer Coffee Company in Detroit, Michigan was a long-time leader in the production of coffee in the Motor City. Te Tefler Company produced a myriad of different coffee brands under the company name and collectors today can find many of them with a quick google search. This particular Telfer Coffee Company Milk Maid Java…
The Moxie brand of soda was a very well-known soda brand which had a huge following in the Northeastern part of the United States for many years. This 1933 tin sign incorporated their commonly used slogan “distinctively different” in the advertisement. The use of the racing car was also something that collectors can find on…
The G. W. Gail & Ax Tobacco Works was famous for their leading brand, Navy Cut Plug Chewing Tobacco. The enclosed framed factory scene from the Gail and Ax Tobacco Works Company features an impressive image of the massive structure which was located on Pratt and Barre Streets near Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. If…
The owners of the Iroquois Brewery in Buffalo, N.Y. didn’t have to think long before they decided on their corporate logo I am guessing. With a name like Iroquois, it was easy to incorporate an Indian logo into their advertising, and by doing so, the Iroquois beer brand would last over 100 years, and remains…
The small town of Waterloo, Illinois is known primarily as a bed room community to the St. Louis metropolitan area. The simple proximity to the large city allowed many residents to commute daily to their jobs for years. However at one time Waterloo was known for their primary employers which were a couple of milling companies…
THE SLEEPY EYE MILLING CO. – A LEADER IN THE FLOUR INDUSTRY: One of the more collectible advertisements sought after today features a distinctive Indian chief which was put on just about every Sleepy Eye Flour brand of advertising giveaway possible in the early 1900’s. The Sleepy Eye flour brand logo featured a distinguished Indian…
Polly wants a cracker! Who hasn’t heard the old saying, “Polly wants a cracker?”. This well-known phrase was certainly part of the Dozier Weyl Cracker Company advertising campaigns. They were based in St. Louis, MO and cleverly used a parrot in their advertising to help them sell their cracker products. The parrot is illustrated in…
Fake Signs being Passed off as Authentic A sad but realistic trend in the advertising collectibles hobby is fake signs being introduced into the market by some unscrupulous dealers. The cause of this is simple: antique signs bring extraordinary prices created by the strong demand from a very limited supply of antique items to their…