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…
Here’s a beautiful self-framed tin sign depicting the first mayor of Albany, New York, Peter Schuyler. He must have been so popular the G.W. Van Slyke & Horton Cigar Manufacturing Company in Albany made a cigar and named it after the cities former mayor. This sign is spectacular in color and clarity.
Featured is a beautiful tip tray from the small Northhampton, Pennsylvania Brewing Company. This tray is from about 1910, and is a pre-prohibition rarity.
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…
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…
St. 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…
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…
Nic Nac Chewing Tobacco Tin Counter Display Can.
Here’s an early lithographic print from the Old Forester Brand of Whisky, stating “Guarding A Good Thing in Arizona”. This print is circa 1910, and from the pre-prohibition era. The Brown and Forman Company was a Louisville, KY based whiskey distiller.
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…
