Featured is a beautifully illustrated cigar box full of cigars from the Goldsmith, Silver and Company for their M.C.A. brand of 10 cent cigars. This Boston, MA based company produced this small serving tray around 1900. I love the coloring, and the image of a ready to serve appeal full of very well defined cigars…
Here is a beautiful pre-prohibition era serving tray from the long defunct Aberdeen Washington brewery. This particular tray is colorful, and advertises proudly their Prima brand of bottled lager beer. The use of a nice patriotic USA colored shield helps provide more color and eye appeal. One of the fun facts about this brewery is…
I like this coffee tin from the Biston Coffee Company since it shows an old phonograph radio or record player like instrument in the graphics on the can. I have seen other Radio brand coffee tins with radio waves emitting from the name on that version of can also. One has to realize that the…
I like this lithograph because it is very simple. If you chew Payroll Tobacco it will be a “Sure Winner”. Okay, how much more simple is an advertising campaign than that? Everyone wants to purchase a good high quality brand, and apparently if you bought Payroll tobacco you were going to get a winning or…
Featured is a stunning pre-prohibition serving tray from the Union Brewing Company out of Detroit, Michigan. This particular metal tavern or saloon tray advertised a well known turn of the century beer in Detroit called Gilt Edge. The tray incorporated a lot of patriotic colors in the design, not surprising as patriotism was at a…
This particular pre-prohibition era metal serving tray from the Metz Brewing Company out of Omaha, NE is a beauty. The coloring is unusual compared to most pre-pro era trays and mostly I love it because they only needed to include an “M” in the middle of the tray in order to command a buyers attention.…
How can you not love the William Tell flour brand logo, “You Knead It”! I always thought whoever came up with this slogan was pretty clever in their day. After all, everyone kneaded their flour back in the early 1900’s when this particular tip tray was produced. Today with the advances of technology kneading flour…
The invention of a self stopping music phonograph was a big deal around 1910 when this particular sign from the Columbia Grafonola brand was produced. The new music invention now allowed your phonograph record player to turn off automatically once the vinyl album was at the end. Hence, touting the ease of the user to…
Here is a beautifully illustrated cardboard sign from the Armas Del Rey brand of cigars. Circa 1910 era.
Here is a tough to find post prohibition brewery beer box from the Peerless Brewery in Washington, MO, just outside St. Louis. Cardboard boxes of this era are generally difficult to find as they were simply not as durable as their wooden counterparts.
