The Beach-Nut Tobacco brand was certainly a household name for many years, becoming one of the biggest selling tobacco brands in the plug tobacco category. In the 1930’s when this bin was made it would be hard to walk into a general store or any smaller merchant and not find Beach-Nut Tobacco on the shelf. …
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49th Annual Antique Bottle Show, St. Louis, MO, Sunday, March 17, 9am – 2pm Stop by the 49th Annual Antique Bottle and Jar Show this Sunday to see thousands of colorful antique glass and stoneware bottles. There will be over 115 tables worth of merchandise for sale at this show. Over the past 20 years, I…
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The 7 Up Brand certainly did well with their advertising slogan, “It Likes You”, considering collectors today can find many variations of advertising products with this well known and steadfast slogan the brand incorporated. This particular signs also used another commonly used slogan from 7Up on the top, where the sign says “Fresh Up With…
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Everyone has heard the old adage, “they fight like cats and dogs” in their lives more than once. The Honest Scrap Tobacco brand made a worldwide brand famous by using that very image, a cat and dog getting ready to rumble, or, preparing for “An Honest Scrap” as their slogan stated. However, in the case…
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One of my favorite pre-prohibition era advertising pieces is the beautiful Bohemian Beer charger from the Buffalo Brewing Company in Sacramento, CA. This metal charger incorporates an unusual greenish blue two-tone color combination which was not often used in early advertising promotional items. The tray is pretty devoid of an advertising slogan, other than to…
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I love this serving tray from the Bartlett Spring Mineral Water Resort in Lake County, California. This particular serving tray says San Francisco, however, that location was simply a depot where the product was sold in the city. The mineral water was actually produced and mainly sold in the Lake County area, which is approximately…
DetailsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch speaks with the Antique Advertising Expert St. Louis Post-Dispatch features writer, Valerie Schremp Hawn, interviewed The Antique Advertising Expert, Randy Huetsch, for an article regarding his historical perspective of the Cook’s Imperial Champagne which was made by the American Wine Company, St. Louis, MO. The American Wine Company was formally located inside a stone building, that…
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I have always thought the idea of mixing a tobacco product with an flower was a strange marketing combination, but the Orange Flower Brand of quality cigars apparently was successful enough to make it work! Collectors today can often find the Orange Flower brand round cigar can fairly easily, helping illustrate the brand sold quite…
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I have always enjoyed the color and beautiful graphics from this century old pre-prohibition era serving tray put out by the Hudson County Brewing Company in West Hoboken, N.J. In the shadow of New York City, and with the major competition from Gottfried Krueger in Newark, George Ehret in NYC, and others, the Hudson County…
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One of my favorite self-framed tin signs I have seen is this beautiful Wyandotte Detergent sign from the J. B. Ford Company based in Wyandotte, MI. This Indian logo was used for many years, and the company advertised “The Indian in the Diamond was in every package”. From what I have seen, the Indian…
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