THE IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY IN KANSAS CITY, MO PRODUCED A RATHER UNIQUE SERVING TRAY: One of the funniest antique advertising items I have seen in years of collecting comes from the Imperial Brewing Company. This company was based in Kansas City, MO. Featured prominently on their pre-prohibition serving tray is an entire bear family. They…
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The Bartlett Springs Mineral Water Company was based in Lake County, California. It was a well known mineral water and bath house destination for many northern Californians in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. One of my favorite collectibles from the state of CA are the serving trays which the Bartlett Springs Mineral Water Company…
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The P. Lorillard Tobacco Company put out some beautiful advertising back in the late 1800’s and into the early 1900’s including this tin sign for their 49 Cut Plug Chewing Tobacco Brand. The illustration on the sign shows a gold miner, with his pick and mining pan nearby. The 49 Cut Plug name is clearly…
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The use a topless nymph fairy image was perfected by the White Rock Beverage Company in Whitestone, NY as it caught the attention of men and woman alike, and led their mineral water brand to the top in sales. White Rock Beverages is the nation’s oldest beverage company having been established in 1871, by pharmacist H.M. Colver…
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One of my favorite pre-prohibition brewery trays was put out by the Claussen Brewing Association in Seattle, WA. This particular tray features a pretty woman pouring a labeled bottle of Tannhaeuser beer into an acid etched Tannhaeuser glass which features the company’s logo on the glass too! The coloring on the tray is spectacular in…
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Pictured here is a beautiful ceramic syrup dispenser from the Fan-Taz brand from the 1910-1920 era. What makes this dispenser unique from others, is the shape and style. If you look closely you will see the center part has stitching on it which mimics the stitching on a baseball! The brand claims at the bottom…
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Theo Gier was a well-known wine producing baron in the late 1800’s in the present day Napa Valley Region outside San Francisco. Headquartered in both Napa and in Livermore, Mr. Gier started his business career in Oakland at 511-515 Fourteenth Street where he started a General Store and sold large quantities of whiskey. Eventually the…
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The town of Peoria, Illinois was at one time the largest whiskey producing city in the United States. There were many companies based in Peoria in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Originally started as the Clarke Bros. Whiskey Distillery and later called The Clarke Bros. & Company Distillery, the company claimed to be the largest…
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The Maier Brewing Company in Los Angeles, California was a long time leading manufacturer of beer in Southern CA for many years starting in 1907. This particular tray is circa 1910-1915 and boldly states the brewery was “The Standard of Perfection”. If the brewery was the standard of perfection in just a few short years,…
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The Red Raven Splits brand was very well known in the early 1900’s for their prolific use of advertising trays featuring a red raven bird on them, and the slogan, “Ask The Man” on most of the products advertising items. I don’t know exactly who “the man” was, but I am guessing it was the local…
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