Young Children Featured in Antique Advertising I have always found it quite interesting when breweries utilized images of young children in their advertising to help sell their brands of beer. This practice was very common in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s given the amount of antique advertising still found today with this combination of…
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Dwinell-Wright Coffee and Roasting Company The early pioneer Dwinell-Wright Coffee and Roasting Company in Boston put out so much early quality advertising of early Americana, collectors can today still add some amazing items from the company. Featured here is a stunning yellow painted General Store coffee bin from the company advertising their Boston Roasted Java…
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I was very happy to recently acquire an early general store wood cabinet with a gorgeous acid etching on the front glass from Dr. J. H. McLean’s Medicinal Empire in St. Louis, MO. This cabinet would have been filled with bottles of Dr. McLeans Medicines and been on display in an early pharmacy or general store. …
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Featured here is an amazing wooden outdoor sign which would have hung proudly outside a late 1800’s confectionary. The use of wood signs in the mid to late 1800’s was the most commonly used advertising mechanism for early business’s. Wood was cheaper than metal at the time, and the German lithographic process was still in…
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The R. Naegeli’s Sons Brewery in Hoboken, New Jersey put out a beautiful curled edge sign advertising their imported pilsener beer with very distinctive black and yellow[orange coloring. This sign also featured a beautiful German girl dressed in a Munich style Octoberfest dress carrying multiple steins of beer to her thirsty patrons! The bottom of…
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I find it interesting today to learn how the Charles Hire Root Beer Company cleverly used a long standing marketing strategy of showing healthy children to sell their soda brand. The Hires Root beer brand was marketed as creating “strength, a rosy complexion, and beauty, while supplying the nerves and brain with a blood purifier”. …
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PA based breweriana collectors today who have an interest in the Stegmaier Brewing Company are blessed as the Stegmaier family truly believed in the power of advertising based on the amount of quality memorabilia which exist today from this brewery. Pictured here is a nicely done factory scene from the Wilkes-Barre based brewery. Tip trays…
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The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company produced a very unique self-framed tin sign pictured here around 1900, which incorporated an old fashioned tea or in this case, a cocoa and chocolate party! This sign has proven to be a collector favorite and whenever it is at auction, if the condition is good, the value is also good. …
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In 1883 A. J. Roach started a business producing butter known as the Fountain Creamery, which quickly became a cooperative for local farmers who brought their cattle into the small town of Waterloo, to sell their cattle’s output. Shortly after the business started three different Seeber family members joined the business as a principal owners…
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The use of the word “gypsy” typically brings to mind negativity, deceit, or danger in most people’s mind. However, one company used the word Gypsy to entice people to buy their product, and by doing so, were apparently very successful in establishing their ladies and men hosiery as one of leading selling brands in the…
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