Here is a beautiful wooden general store floor coffee bin from the Evans Coffee Company advertising for their Star brand of coffee, circa 1900. The Evans Company was better known in later years as the David Evans Coffee Co. and was mostly known for their Old Judge brand of coffee and spices. This wood bin…
This particular metal serving tray featuring the slogan “Remember the Maine” was a common battle cry at the end of the 1898 Spanish-American War whereby the U.S. Maine ship was destroyed by the Spanish flotilla. Many lives were lost when this ship was sunk, and as a result, the Americans used this as their rationale…
This particular country general store counter java coffee bin from the Boyd, Leeds & Co. in Boston, MA creatively used an iconic symbol of their area to sell it’s products. When one thinks of lighthouses oftentimes more than not the historical areas of the Northeast come to mind, and the Beacon of a lighthouse is…
This particular tin herring advertising can is from the Louis Maull Cheese and Fish Company out of St. Louis, MO about 1900. The can is for their herring product which would have been packed in oil and was a huge delicacy in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. How did herring survive to be sold…