Here is a great tin sign from the Falstaff brand of beer. Falstaff originated with the William J. Lemp Brewing Company which was based in St. Louis, MO. This brand eventually opened up multiple breweries throughout the United States, including New Orleans, LA, San Jose, CA, Omaha, NE, Cranston, R.I., Tampa, FL, etc. The blue…
This is a great prohibition era tin sign from the Falstaff Brewing Company in St. Louis, MO for their Dublin Style Cereal Beverage. Cereal beverages were replacement for beer when prohibition started, but were very weak sellers, probably because they did not taste good.
Tin over Cardboard (TOC) advertising sign for the Falstaff Super X Brand. It has a red background and reads “Falstaff Super X – The Choicest Product of the Brewers’ Art”. Circa 1935.
Featured is a beautiful tobacco tin lunch box from the American Tobacco Company which was based in Chicago, Illinois. This tin features a bright image of a fashionably dressed woman and man on their way to some exotic destination most likely. This brand was one of the companies major sellers along with the Miners Extra…
Circa 1920 Faust Brand of Pepper. The Faust name was also used as a beer by the Anheuser Busch family as they were close friends. Their was also a very famous restaurant in St. Louis owned by Tony Faust, so I would imagine his pepper brand was used there!
Here is one of the series of Faust steins from Anheuser-Busch advertising their brand of beer called Faust. Faust comes from a German play called Dr. Faust, and the devil character is prominent in the play. The Faust family was intermarried into the Busch family, hence, the beer was named after that relationship with the…
This is a great embossed stoneware coffee pot advertising the Faust Brand of coffee from C. F. Blanke Coffee and Spice Co. in St. Louis, MO. Circa 1900.
Pictured here is an early self-framed tin lithographic sign from the Frank Fehr Brewery in Louisville, KY. This sign advertises their Malt Tonic Drink. Malt Tonic’s were commonly sold before prohibition. Circa 1900.
Here is a beautiful celluloid over cardboard similar to a tin over cardboard sign from the Feigenspan brewery out of Newark, New Jersey for their PON brand of Beer and Ale products. Circa 1930’s.
This tin coffee can is very colorful and pretty cool. How many coffee cans have you seen with baby chickens on them? It’s a rare design for sure, and the color was certainly an eye catcher. This can is from the 1920-30s era, and is from an Oklahoma based company.
