Emmerling Brewing Co. Metal Serving Beer Tray, Johnstown, PA.
Here is a nice version of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Brewing Company for their Emmerling brand of beer.
Erie Brewing Company Serving Tray, Erie. PA. Beer, Ale, Porter. Circa 1910
Here is a beautiful metal or tin serving tray from an era just before Prohibition from the Erie, Pennsylvania Brewing Company advertising their Beer, Ale, Porter beers with the National, Wiener, and other beer styles of that era they were producing. This tray is very colorful and represents a smaller brewery in an era when…
Hanley Kinsella H-K Shield Brand Coffee Tin Sign, St. Louis, MO.
Here is a nice tin sign featuring the Hanley Kinsella Company Shield brand of coffee and an image of their coffee can featured prominently on the sign. The H-K brand can be commonly found on many spice tins, as that was their main product line I suspect, but the coffee bins and tins are found…
Closset & Devers Roasted Tin Coffee Bin, Portland, OR. Ca. 1900
Here is a very nice tin old general store coffee bin from the Closset and Devers Company which was based in Portland, Oregon around the early 1900′ era. Coffee bins like this were used by hundreds of people each work to pull out bulk coffee beans, so finding them in pristine condition is very tough…
Freeland Brewing Co Lager Beer Rolled Edge Sign, Freeland, PA. Ca. 1910
Here’s a great rolled or curled edge tin sign advertising Freeland lager beer from the long defunct Freeland, Pennsylvania brewery during the pre-prohibition era. This sign has a stock image with the beautiful female image, but the rest of the sign was designed specifically for this particular brewery. If you have any items from the…
Fort Pitt Brewing Co. Old Shay TOC Sign, Ca. 1930s
Here’s a really good looking Tin over Cardboard (TOC) sign from the Fort Pitt Brewing Company for one of their flagship brands, Old Shay Ale. Tin over cardboard style signs were originally used around 1915 by a few breweries and other industries, but the vast majority of them started to be used in the 1930-1940s…
First Pick Coffee Can, Carroll-Brough-Robinson Co, Oklahoma City & Enid, OK.
This tin coffee can is very colorful and pretty cool. How many coffee cans have you seen with baby chickens on them? It’s a rare design for sure, and the color was certainly an eye catcher. This can is from the 1920-30s era, and is from an Oklahoma based company.
C.F. BLANKE SOLD NATIONAL PRIDE AS A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY TO THE UNION!
Here is a beautiful advertising tin from the C. F. Blanke Coffee and Tea Company based in St. Louis, MO. This tin simply showed the pride that the company and the residents had for the United States shortly after the conclusion of the Spanish American war, and with the troubles brewing in Europe before WW1…
A TIMELESS TIN CORNER SIGN…BALTIMORE STYLE!
This tin sign is simply a classic design, very commonly used, with the gold and black color combination. For whatever reason, and I assume simply for the reason the colors were vibrant and a nice contrast, the gold and black coloring scheme was very common in the early 1900’s across multiple advertising product industries. This…
IN ROCK ISLAND, THE NATIVE AMERICANS KNEW A GOOD BEER!
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…