The Diamond Dyes Company was the leading dye company in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s. The companies products were sold at old general stores throughout the United States, and they were sold in wood stand up cabinets like the one shown. The company produced cabinets with many styles of tin inserts, all depicting various colorful scenes…
The Baxter Cigar brand certainly played their Drum Cigar brand well, as they created a advertising slogan saying they beat all. What a better connotation of beating your competitors with a drum? Certainly some early Madison Avenue Marketer developed the campaign which made sense. However, the Baxter Drum Brand is no longer with us. …
I have always liked the image the Ceresota Flour brand used in the early 1900’s of a young boy using a large knife to cut through a giant loaf of bread. The bread appears to be about the same size as the boys entire chest area! Where the parents were to help the child,…
Featured is a beautiful tin or metal sign from the Lipton Tea Brand. This sign beautifully illustrates a round string holder as it’s image, a common item used to help advertise products in the early 1900’s.
Featured is a beautiful sailboat scene on a metal serving tray for the J. H. Cutter Whisky brand, made by the C. P. Moorman & Company in Louisville, Kentucky. As was somewhat common around 1900, the spelling of whiskey is actually spelled as whisky on the tray, with a missing “e”. The tray is a…
Featured is a beautiful small tin sign from the Royal Fruit Cigar brand. The sign advertises their brand as being 5 cts. per cigar. This sign is from the 1900-1910 era.
Featured is a great old tin sign entitled King Bourbon, or “Two Kings”, which was a reference to the lion being the King of the Jungle, and the Bourbon itself. This sign was put out by the Morrin-Powers Company which was a whiskey distributor in Kansas City, MO prior to Prohibition. This same image was…
Featured is an amazing serving tray from the Union Brewing and Malting Company in San Francisco, California, circa 1915. This great pre-prohibition tray features Uncle Sam enjoying Cascade beer with his friends!
Featured is a beautiful general store tin shelf cannister from the Ojibwa brand of tobacco. Ojibwa was one of the larger selling tobacco cut plug brands sold by the Scott Dillon Tobacco Company, which was based in Detroit, Michigan. This can is circa 1920, and would have held 48 individual sale packets of their fine…
Here’s a really neat looking early lithographic sign from the Brown-Forman Distillery which was based in Louisville, Kentucky prior to prohibition. The image shows a bartender providing a pour of whiskey to a patron standing near the long wood bar.
