This pre-prohibition tin serving tray has always been one of my favorites. The use of a native American, or Indian if you prefer on a canoe advertising the Rock Island Brewing Companies beer is priceless. The imagery of this brewery tray is very colorful, and was certainly eye appealing to potential buyers. Native American images…
Here is a very tough to find early serving tray from the Illinois Brewery Company, which was based in Socorro, NM. This brewery was started by Mr. Hamel’s who was based originally in Lebanon, IL.
Featured is a gorgeous advertising wooden diecut trade sign from an early ice cream or confectionary store. This could have also come from a soda fountain possibly.
Pre-Pro era Reverse on Glass outdoor hanging sign, I.W. Harper Brand of Whiskey, Nelson County, KY.
Tin Embossed Beer sign from the Hyde Park Brewery in North St. Louis, MO, Ca. 1930s This brand was also sold prior to prohibition and last until the early 1950s before it was bought by another brewery, and the Hyde Park brand was eliminated.
Featured is a nice tin sign from the Hyde Park Brewing Co. which was formally in the north side of the city of St. Louis, Missouri. This Hyde Park sign incorporated the breweries famous shield logo image. Circa 1940.
This is a rare advertising relic; an AM radio shaped like a beer bottle made by the Hyde Park Brewery in St. Louis, MO, 1940.
Rare Hyde Park 75 brand beer tin over cardboard advertising sign from the early 1950’s for this short lived brand out of St. Louis, MO. The 75 brand was introduced to commemorate the breweries 75 years in business and was targeted with female drinkers.
This is a collection of various soda bottles from the towns of Waterloo, Millstadt and Valmeyer, Illinois. The Charles Boeke bottle from Waterloo, IL is a Hutchinson or “hutch” style soda bottle which would have required a porcelain stopper in the top held in place by the wire bail
1930s Tin over Cardboard Soda Sign from the Fred Husemann Soda Bottling Company in Red Bud, Illinois. Mr. Husemann was in business from approximately 1920 to 1960 in this town in Randolph County, IL.
