Featured is an early round metal serving tray from the California Brewing Association in Napa, CA for the Golden Ribbon Beer Brand. This tray features a woman galloping through the desert on a horse, a very unusual design, and to my knowledge, not a stock style tray. Circa 1910, Pre-Prohibition era.
Featured here is a gorgeous ceramic root beer dispenser from the Hire’s Root Beer Brand out of Philadelphia, PA. This dispenser features the popular Hire’s Boy image on it, with the denotation the soda “Is luscious and pure”. Circa 1900.
Pictured is an early General Store Wooden Coffee Bin from the E. C. Scudder and Brother Coffee Company, based in Saint Louis, MO. Later this company became the Scudder-Gale Grocer Company in the 1920’s. An awesome stenciled wooden display piece. Circa 1900.
Featured is an early Phoenix Brewery Sign from the Bay City, Michigan Brewing Company. This sign features a group of men readying themselves for a cock fight, an image which was popular at that time, but would not be accepted today. This sign is a pre-prohibition era advertising piece, circa 1910.
Featured is a colorful tin sign from the Nebo Brand of Cigarettes, owned by the P. Lorillard Company in New York City, N.Y. This sign features the tag lines “Gloriously Good” and “One Calls for Two”. Circa 1911, this sign features a Turkish man in the image.
Pocket tobacco tin features the Gold Dust Brand of Tobacco. Worth It’s Weight in Gold.
Here is an old pre-prohibition serving tray from The Jung Brewing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The tray advertises several of their beer offerings including Old Nurnberger, Aurora Export, Old Lager, and Pilsener Beer. Each of these beer styles are listed on the edges of the round tray. Also has a reference to the Red Heart…
Featured here are two large 48 count 5 cent packet containers for the well-known Sweet Burley Brand of smoking tobacco from the Spaulding and Merrick Tobacco Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. The Sweet Burley brand was sold in both Light and Dark versions, as denoted on each of the two colored cans. The Light brand…
BROTHERHOOD TOBACCO’S AD CAMPAIGN HELPED BRIDGE CLASS WARFARE! One of my favorite advertising pieces from the early 1900s comes from The Brotherhood Tobacco brand. What I like about this advertisement is the brand clearly tried to demonstrate a point that no matter what your class or background was, their tobacco brand would be “The Tie…
Richmond Straight Cut Self-Framed Cigarette Tobacco Sign from the Allen and Ginter Tobacco Company in Richmond, VA. Successor was The American Tobacco Co. Circa 1900.
