Randy Huetsch, Author at The Antique Advertising Expert

Royal Fruit 5 Cent Cigar Tin Sign, Circa 1900 — Zoom Details

ROYAL FRUIT 5 CENT CIGAR TIN SIGN, Ca. 1900

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.

King Bourbon "Two Kings" Tin Sign, Morrin-Powers Co., Kansas City, MO. Circa 1895 — Zoom Details

KING BOURBON “TWO KINGS” TIN SIGN, MORRIN POWERS CO., K.C., MO. Ca. 1895

WhiskeyBy Randy Huetsch April 9, 2019

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…

STAR BRAND SHOES WERE BETTER BASED ON SALES ALONE!

Antique Advertising CollectiblesBy Randy Huetsch April 8, 2019

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…

UNION BREWING & MALTING CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA. SERVING TRAY, Ca. 1915

BrewerianaBy Randy Huetsch March 24, 2019

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!

BEACH-NUT TOBACCO WAS A HOUSEHOLD NAME!

TobaccianaBy Randy Huetsch March 24, 2019

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. …

MARCH 17, 2019! ANTIQUE BOTTLE SHOW IN ST. LOUIS. LOTS OF OTHER ADVERTISING TOO!

Antique Advertising CollectiblesBy Randy Huetsch March 15, 2019

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…

Ojibwa Chewing Tobacco Tin Store Display Container — Zoom Details

OJIBWA FINE CUT TOBACCO CAN, SCOTTEN DILLON COMPANY, DETROIT, MI. Ca. 1920

TobacciannaBy Randy Huetsch March 9, 2019

Featured is a beautiful general store tin shelf cannister from the Ojibwa brand of tobacco. Ojibwa was one of the larger selling tobacco cut plug brands sold by the Scott Dillon Tobacco Company, which was based in Detroit, Michigan. This can is circa 1920, and would have held 48 individual sale packets of their fine…

Brown-Forman Co., Distillers, Louisville, KY Sign, Pre-Pre ca. 1900 — Zoom Details

BROWN-FORMAN DISTILLING CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. 1900 LITHOGRAPH

WhiskeyBy Randy Huetsch March 9, 2019

Here’s a really neat looking early lithographic sign from the Brown-Forman Distillery which was based in Louisville, Kentucky prior to prohibition. The image shows a bartender providing a pour of whiskey to a patron standing near the long wood bar.

Pabst Beer Self Framed Tin Sign, Milwaukee, WI. Circa 1900 — Zoom Details

PABST BLUE RIBBON SELF-FRAMED TIN SIGN, MILWAUKEE, WI. Circa 1935

BrewerianaBy Randy Huetsch March 9, 2019

Featured is a nice tin over cardboard beer sign, from the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This beer was made in Milwaukee and continues to be made even today. Early self-framed tin signs are highly sought after by collectors today.

7UP SODA LIKES YOU!

Antique Advertising Collectibles, SodaBy Randy Huetsch March 9, 2019

The 7 Up Brand certainly did well with their advertising slogan, “It Likes You”, considering collectors today can find many variations of advertising products with this well known and steadfast slogan the brand incorporated. This particular signs also used another commonly used slogan from 7Up on the top, where the sign says “Fresh Up With…