I have always wondered why many pre-prohibition era brewers used a lion in their image when trying to sell their beer? One of my favorite beer collectibles which I have recently come across is this beautiful reverse on glass sign from The Windisch-Muhlhauser Brewing Company advertising their Lion Brand of beer, produced by the Lion…
Featured is an incredible gesso framed advertising lithograph from the Charles A. Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This print features their trademark eagle at the time (before the dough boy), and the factory itself in the lower inset view. Circa 1900.
Featured is a beautiful tin over cardboard sign from the Lipton’s Instant Cocoa Brand. Circa 1910.
Featured is an early lunch box tin with a handle from the Satisfaction Cut Plug brand of tobacco.
Featured is an excellent porcelain stoneware syrup dispenser from the Grape Smash Soda. The dispenser has a slogan “It’s Delicious” on it. This dispenser would have been used in a soda fountain or pharmacy with a soda fountain around 1915.
Pictured is an incredible metal outdoor hanging corner sign from the Beverwyck Brewing Company in Albany, N.Y., featuring Gambrinus as the striking image for the sign. This sign is tin and is circa 1895.
Pictured is a beautiful pre-prohibition serving tray from the Hudson County Consumers Brewing Company in West Hoboken, New Jersey. The tray shows a lot of color and a great factory scene image.
One of the more intriguing advertising items I have found recently was the use of a peacock by the August Schell Brewing Company of New Ulm, MN for their Malt Prohibition era drink. This beautiful lithograph features a pretty young woman staring admirably at a beautiful peacock which is standing next to her. I was…
I have always liked the image on this Snow Boy Washing Powder Soap metal sign. I can only speculate the use of the Lautz Bros. & Company product would clean your clothes to look as white as fresh snow again. The use of a young boy gliding down a hill on his sled carrying…
Featured is an amazing self-framed tin sign from the Diamond Dyes Brand, which was made by The Wells, Richardson & Company in Burlington, Vermont. The Diamond Dyes Brand is best known for their wood spool cabinets which had about a dozen different tin sign scenes on the cabinet front doors. These dyes were sold by General…
