Shown here is an early 1900’s era tin sign from the Quaker Oats Company, advertising their Quaker Flour, sold in cotton bags. Quaker Oats had a plant in Canada as shown on the bag. Known the world over, for every baking purposes, the sign incorporates a colonel quaker gentlemen in the advertisement.
Here is an early reverse on glass sign from the S. Hirsch & Company Whiskey Distillery in Kansas City, MO. The sign is for their famous Quaker Maid Whiskey brand. This sign is a pre-prohibition era advertisement, circa 1900.
Featured here is one of the early curled signs from the R. Naegeli and Sons business in Hoboken, New Jersey. This sign has a similar design with a different beer listed with the same girls image featured in both. This sign is for the Imported Pilsener style of beer.
Here is a great tin sign from the R. W. Bells Company, which was based in Buffalo, New York. The Bells Company made soaps for years, and they were a dominant seller of soap in the market as early as 1880. The Buffalo Brand of soap was perhaps their top seller for many years,…
The R & G Corset Factory once ruled not only the streets of Norwalk, CT, but basically the entire United States as their brand of corsets was the largest selling brand in the U.S. Norwalk had the reputation of also being one of the biggest hat manufacturing cities in the U.S. also. Interestingly the company…
Pictured here is a beautiful brass framed vitrolite glass corner sign from the William Rahr Brewing Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Rahr Brewery also brewed beer in Green Bay, WI also.
Chipped Glass Bank Sign from the Rawson and Evans Glass Company in Chicago, IL & New York City, N.Y. Circa 1895.
Circa 1920s Metal or Tin Soda Sign from the Fred Husemann Soda Bottling Company in Red Bud, Illinois. Mr. Husemann was in business from approximately 1920 to 1960 in this town in Randolph County, IL.
Red Crown Lunch Pail tobacco tin from JNO Bagley Company in Detroit, Michigan.
Red Indian Tobacco Lunch Box tin for their Cut Plug Tobacco. Lunch Pail tin containers were often used by children when the product was gone.
