Young Children Featured in Antique Advertising I have always found it quite interesting when breweries utilized images of young children in their advertising to help sell their brands of beer. This practice was very common in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s given the amount of antique advertising still found today with this combination of…
The R. Naegeli’s Sons Brewery in Hoboken, New Jersey put out a beautiful curled edge sign advertising their imported pilsener beer with very distinctive black and yellow[orange coloring. This sign also featured a beautiful German girl dressed in a Munich style Octoberfest dress carrying multiple steins of beer to her thirsty patrons! The bottom of…
PA based breweriana collectors today who have an interest in the Stegmaier Brewing Company are blessed as the Stegmaier family truly believed in the power of advertising based on the amount of quality memorabilia which exist today from this brewery. Pictured here is a nicely done factory scene from the Wilkes-Barre based brewery. Tip trays…
A recent “big” find for me is this transom window sign from the Louis Obert Brewing Company which was based in St. Louis, MO before Prohibition. Transom signs were commonly displayed over the entrance of many 1900 era saloons. Taverns built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s often had an entrance with a small…
The Peter Doelger Brewery in New York City was started in 1859 by Peter Doelger, a coppersmith immigrant from Germany. Mr. Doelger came right at the perfect time to make his mark in brewing, when the Croton Reservoir System was completed in NYC, providing fresh water for brewers to craft their products. The breweries beer must…
One of my favorite self-framed tin signs come from the Buffalo Brewing Company, which was based in Sacramento, CA. The Buffalo Brewing Company was once the largest selling brewery west of the Mississippi River, and dominated sales throughout California, the Pacific NW, Hawaii, Alaska, Central and South America, and even Russia and China. In fact,…
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…
THE IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY IN KANSAS CITY, MO PRODUCED A RATHER UNIQUE SERVING TRAY: One of the funniest antique advertising items I have seen in years of collecting comes from the Imperial Brewing Company. This company was based in Kansas City, MO. Featured prominently on their pre-prohibition serving tray is an entire bear family. They…
One of my favorite pre-prohibition brewery trays was put out by the Claussen Brewing Association in Seattle, WA. This particular tray features a pretty woman pouring a labeled bottle of Tannhaeuser beer into an acid etched Tannhaeuser glass which features the company’s logo on the glass too! The coloring on the tray is spectacular in…