Featured is a beautiful reverse on glass shoe sign from the Burt and Packard Company formerly in Brockton, Massachusetts. This sign advertises their Korrect Shape Brand of shoes. Circa 1905.
Featured is a beautiful tin coffee can from the Biklen Winzer Grocery Company in Burlington, IA. The can features a horse or thoroughbred image with the name Derby Coffee. Whether this is a correlation to the Kentucky Derby or not, I simply do not know. But it would make sense!
I love this particular brewery tray from The Lembeck and Betz Eagle Brewing Company because of the trays patriotic look. The bold illustration of an eagle and the claim calling themselves “The National Beverage” along with naming their beer “American Club Beer” simply exudes patriotism at its finest. I believe in a time of civil…
M-C-A 10 ct. cigar lithographic sign. Goldsmith, Silver Company, Boston, MA.
Brushed aluminum Phoenix Beer sign from the Phoenix Brewery in Bay City, Michigan. Pre-Prohibition era.
One of the more impressive pieces of early Americana is this Skinner’s Satin’s self-framed tin sign, circa 1900. The Skinner Satin brand of dyed yarn was well known for their early use of a cat image playing with a thread spool. In fact, this image was one of the more recognizable images in the 1900…
The Horse Shoe Cut Plug Tobacco was certainly creative with their advertising images over 100 years ago. I have seen several ads from the Drummond Tobacco Company in St. Louis, MO where the cut plug pieces formed an item in the advertisement. This great lithograph uses a play on words about how valuable time is by incorporating…
Lash’s Bitter Products Rolled Edged Sign. This was a cure for Kidney, Liver and other Medicinal ailments in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Red Indian Cut Plug Tobacco Can. This tin is called a Knob Top Can. Made by the American Tobacco Company.
Tin sign featuring the famous dog and cat in an Honest Scrap. Chewing Tobacco Cut Plug Product. Circa 1920.
