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…
Featured is an early cardboard sign advertising the Hershey Milk Chocolate and Cocoa products. The Hershey Company was large, but they did limited widespread advertising in the early 1900’s. Subsequently, collectors today cannot find a large variety of early advertising from this company.
Pictured is an amazing Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Brand wooden sign from the J.C. Ayers Company in Lowell, MA. This sign makes a bold claims for the liquid’s ability to cure cough, colds, throat and lung diseases. Such claims were common in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s before the FDA started outlawing such advertising claims.
Featured is an early pre-prohibition Meyercord wood style sign featuring the Thomas Ryan Sparkling Ale brand from Syracuse, New York. Meyercord wooden signs were made by the Meyercord Company in Chicago, IL, and were commonly used in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
