Featured is a beautiful celluloid over cardboard sign from the American Brewing Company in Saint Louis, Missouri. This is for their flagship ABC Brand of Beer, and trademark eagle image. A nice pre-prohibition sign!
This is a really nice embossed cardboard sign from the Capital City Dairy Company in Columbus, Ohio. The image shows a young girl riding a cow with the words Purity and Butterine also.
This is an early advertising tradecard from the Dozier Weyl Biscuit Cracker Co., which was based in downtown Saint Louis, Missouri. The image features their large factory building and their parrot image, which was featured in the vast majority of their giveaway advertising products. The parrot is talking about their Boss Crackers. The Dozier Weyl…
Featured here is one of the early curled signs from the R. Naegeli and Sons business in Hoboken, New Jersey. This sign has a similar design with a different beer listed with the same girls image featured in both. This sign is for the Imported Pilsener style of beer.
This is a beautiful lithograph of the Brotherhood Tobacco Brand featuring two gentleman, a distinguished gentleman and a train conductor enjoying their chewing and smoking product. This brand was sold by the P. Lorillard Tobacco Company.
Here is a very unusual round tin sign from the Golden Orangeade brand of soda, circa 1900. This drink was made by the J. Hungersford Smith Company of Jersey City, New Jersey.
Pictured is a beautiful tin sign for the Sleepy Eye Flour Brand, produced by the Sleepy Eye Flour Milling Company of Minneapolis, MN.
I find it interesting today to learn how the Charles Hire Root Beer Company cleverly used a long standing marketing strategy of showing healthy children to sell their soda brand. The Hires Root beer brand was marketed as creating “strength, a rosy complexion, and beauty, while supplying the nerves and brain with a blood purifier”. …
A beautiful Victorian woman is featured on this antique advertising tin sign for Sloman’s Diamond Wedding Whiskey, circa 1910. The whiskey was produced by August Baetzhold in Buffalo, New York. I think it’s interesting how many of the early distilleries and breweries highlighted beautiful woman in their advertising, apparently targeting the men who were…
A stunning vitrolite corner sign from the Gluek Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota manufactured before Prohibition started in 1919.
