The Baxter Cigar brand certainly played their Drum Cigar brand well, as they created a advertising slogan saying they beat all. What a better connotation of beating your competitors with a drum? Certainly some early Madison Avenue Marketer developed the campaign which made sense. However, the Baxter Drum Brand is no longer with us. …
I have always liked the image the Ceresota Flour brand used in the early 1900’s of a young boy using a large knife to cut through a giant loaf of bread. The bread appears to be about the same size as the boys entire chest area! Where the parents were to help the child,…
Featured is a beautiful tin or metal sign from the Lipton Tea Brand. This sign beautifully illustrates a round string holder as it’s image, a common item used to help advertise products in the early 1900’s.
Featured is a beautiful sailboat scene on a metal serving tray for the J. H. Cutter Whisky brand, made by the C. P. Moorman & Company in Louisville, Kentucky. As was somewhat common around 1900, the spelling of whiskey is actually spelled as whisky on the tray, with a missing “e”. The tray is a…
Featured is a beautiful small tin sign from the Royal Fruit Cigar brand. The sign advertises their brand as being 5 cts. per cigar. This sign is from the 1900-1910 era.
Featured is a great old tin sign entitled King Bourbon, or “Two Kings”, which was a reference to the lion being the King of the Jungle, and the Bourbon itself. This sign was put out by the Morrin-Powers Company which was a whiskey distributor in Kansas City, MO prior to Prohibition. This same image was…
Featured here is an awesome tin sign featuring an early pair of woman’s shoes from the Star Brand Shoe label. This brand was sold by the Roberts Johnson Rand Shoe Company in St. Louis, MO. The Star Brand of shoes was prolific in their usage of small town advertising general stores to help sell…
Featured is an amazing serving tray from the Union Brewing and Malting Company in San Francisco, California, circa 1915. This great pre-prohibition tray features Uncle Sam enjoying Cascade beer with his friends!
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. …
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…
