ROYAL FRUIT 5 CENT CIGAR TIN SIGN, Ca. 1900
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.
KING BOURBON “TWO KINGS” TIN SIGN, MORRIN POWERS CO., K.C., MO. Ca. 1895
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…
UNION BREWING & MALTING CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA. SERVING TRAY, Ca. 1915
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!
OJIBWA FINE CUT TOBACCO CAN, SCOTTEN DILLON COMPANY, DETROIT, MI. Ca. 1920
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…
BROWN-FORMAN DISTILLING CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. 1900 LITHOGRAPH
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.
PABST BLUE RIBBON SELF-FRAMED TIN SIGN, MILWAUKEE, WI. Circa 1935
Featured is a nice tin over cardboard beer sign, from the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This beer was made in Milwaukee and continues to be made even today. Early self-framed tin signs are highly sought after by collectors today.
PETER SCHUYLER 10 CENT CIGAR, G. W. VAN SLYKE & HORTON, ALBANY, N.Y., Ca. 1905
Here’s a beautiful self-framed tin sign depicting the first mayor of Albany, New York, Peter Schuyler. He must have been so popular the G.W. Van Slyke & Horton Cigar Manufacturing Company in Albany made a cigar and named it after the cities former mayor. This sign is spectacular in color and clarity.
NORTHHAMPTON BREWING CO., TIP TRAY, NORTHHAMPTON, PA. Circa 1910
Featured is a beautiful tip tray from the small Northhampton, Pennsylvania Brewing Company. This tray is from about 1910, and is a pre-prohibition rarity.
NIC NAC CHEWING TOBACCO STORE DISPLAY COUNTER TIN. Circa 1920
Nic Nac Chewing Tobacco Tin Counter Display Can.
OLD FORESTER WHISKEY LITHO, BROWN, FORMAN DISTILLERY, LOUISVILLE, KY. Circa 1910
Here’s an early lithographic print from the Old Forester Brand of Whisky, stating “Guarding A Good Thing in Arizona”. This print is circa 1910, and from the pre-prohibition era. The Brown and Forman Company was a Louisville, KY based whiskey distiller.