Here is a really neat prohibition era cardboard sign from the Val Blatz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for their prohibition Malt Tonic Drink. The sign says the drink was “A Nerve & Muscle Builder”. This was a substitute after beer was outlawed by the government. The sign has a string attached via two small holes…
Here is a great prohibition era malt extract products company brand from the Blatz Products Company in Milwaukee. Blatz started making malt extracts like many breweries as prohibition loomed in order to keep the lights on and gainfully employ their workers. Blatz was one of the more successful companies in this endeavor along with Schlitz,…
This is a very unusual Town Talk Brand Coffee tin made for The C. F. Blanke Coffee, Tea & Spice Company based in St. Louis, MO, circa 1910.
This is a very beautiful blue and white colored stoneware pottery coffee pot advertising their Log Cabin brand of tea from the C. F. Blanke Tea & Coffee Company in St. Louis, MO. Circa 1910.
Featured is an early stoneware coffee pot from the Cyrus F. Blanke Coffee Company in Saint Louis, MO. This stoneware pot has the Blanke name on the lid, and features their famous Blanke Devil image for their Faust brand of coffee. Circa 1910. The stoneware mug comes in two different handle styles, and also comes…
This is a very unusual Fancy Blend Coffee Tin Can from The C. F. Blanke Coffee, Tea & Spice Company based in St. Louis, MO. Circa 1910.
This is a very unusual Defy Coffee brand tin made for The C. F. Blanke Coffee, Tea & Spice Company based in St. Louis, MO, circa 1910.
Circa 1915, this tin has a paper label and was manufactured by the Biston Coffee Company in Saint Louis, MO. Saint Louis was a very large coffee manufacturing city in the early 1900s, hence, there are a lot of coffee advertising items available still today. The Folgers brand was the largest from the city to emerge over the years.
Pictured is a beautiful serving tray from the Birmingham, Alabama Brewing Company for their Ideal brand of beer. This metal serving tray is a pre-prohibition era tray, circa 1910.
Here’s a great lithographic cardboard sign advertising “Fishing for Business” from the Bonnie and Company distillers in Louisville, Kentucky, just prior to prohibition starting in 1919. The graphics are interesting with a woman fishing and apparently getting her line caught on her dress, while a curious looking man is staring at her. I am not…
