Here is a awesome cardboard sign with a clock inside for the Continental Brand of Tobacco, made by the Cotterill, Fenner and Company out of Dayton, Ohio. This sign is circa 1910 and shows a continental solider from the Civil War era.
This tray features a beautiful eagle from the Peter Doelger Brewery which was the largest brewery in NYC before Prohibition. The tray advertises the beer was “Brewed Expressly for the Home”.
The Louis Obert Brewery produced several earlier reverse on glass advertising signs, many of which were transom signs like the one photographed here. These transom signs were hung outside saloon or tavern entrances all around the St. Louis MO area in the early 1900’s. This one is the only one known to exist at this time unfortunately today.
The Daniel Aberle and Sons whiskey distilling company produced this beautiful tin charger tray sign around 1905 for their Golden Link Whiskey brand. The Daniel Aberle & Sons Whiskey Distilling Company was based in Minneapolis, MN before Prohibition.
This self-framed tin sign from the Buffalo Brewing Company in Sacramento, California shows two separate beers the brewery once made, one called New Brew, and the other called Bohemian. This sign is circa 1905.
One of the most desirable vintage advertising items sought by collectors today is a self-framed tin sign from the Post Grape Nuts Cereal brand featuring a young girl being walked off to school with her loyal St. Bernard. C. W. Post Cereal Company used this classic scene on several different advertising pieces, but the one…
This is a beautiful vitroite brass framed corner sign from the Robert Burns Cigar Brand. The sign includes the brands commonly used advertising slogan, “They are Mild”. The brand was part of the General Cigar Companies line of cigar and tobacco products.
The image of a young debonair American colonial man was widely used by the Robert Burns brand of cigars in the early 1900’s. The Robert Burns brand of cigars featured this image on larger charger tray signs as well as the featured vitrolite corner sign in the early 1900’s. Both signs are wildly popular today…
One of my favorite pre-prohibition brewery advertising items features a bulldog guarding an ABC brand beer bottle with the slogan “Watching a good Thing”. In the early 1900’s The American Brewing Company based out of St. Louis, MO had an extensive campaign which illustrated a story of the bulldog protecting their owner’s bottle of ABC…
The Ruhstaller Brewing Company in Sacramento, CA was a very well known and long time producing brewery, known for their prolific colorful advertising in the years before Prohibition went into effect in 1919. In fact, collectors today can find many advertising collectibles from the Ruhstaller brewery and also from the Buffalo Brewery, which were both…
