Featured is a beautiful Fountain fine cut tobacco tin can, from the Lovell and Buffington Tobacco Company based in Covington, Kentucky. This fountain image portrays a famous fountain from downtown Cincinnati, just across the river from Covington, KY.
Featured is an early metal serving tray from the Foster’s Brand of Ice Cream. Foster’s was apparently based in Waterloo, but I don’t know if that was IA or NY most likely.
Self-Framed Round Glass sign from the Fort Pitt Special Beer brand. Pittsburgh, PA based brewery. Post-Prohibition, circa 1935.
Jas. Forbes Metal Coffee Bin from St Louis, MO. This container was designed to sell coffee in bulk at the wholesale level. The James Forbes Coffee Company started as the Forbes Coffee Company in St. Louis, MO. Ca 1900
Featured is a gorgeous reverse on glass advertising sign from the Fleischmann Company for their still famous yeast product. Circa 1905.
Here is a great old tin sign from the Five Jacks Brand of Whiskey. Made by the L. Michelson & Brothers Distillery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pre-Prohibition era.
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.
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.
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.
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…
