Shown is a beautiful tin sign from the brewers of Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch, featuring their prohibition era drink called Bevo. This sign comes in a couple of varieties, one featuring a 5 cent slogan, and this one which does not include the bottle price on the piece. Anheuser Busch survived through the dark days of prohibition…
Big Horn Coffee Can. The Inter-State Coffee & Spice Company in Joplin, MO. Circa 1920
Here’s a great lithographic cardboard sign advertising “Fishing for Business” from the Bonnie and Company distillers in Louisville, Kentucky, just prior to prohibition starting in 1919. The graphics are interesting with a woman fishing and apparently getting her line caught on her dress, while a curious looking man is staring at her. I am not…
Pictured is a beautiful serving tray from the Birmingham, Alabama Brewing Company for their Ideal brand of beer. This metal serving tray is a pre-prohibition era tray, circa 1910.
Circa 1915, this tin has a paper label and was manufactured by the Biston Coffee Company in Saint Louis, MO. Saint Louis was a very large coffee manufacturing city in the early 1900s, hence, there are a lot of coffee advertising items available still today. The Folgers brand was the largest from the city to emerge over the years.
This is a very unusual Defy Coffee brand tin made for The C. F. Blanke Coffee, Tea & Spice Company based in St. Louis, MO, circa 1910.
This is a very unusual Fancy Blend Coffee Tin Can from The C. F. Blanke Coffee, Tea & Spice Company based in St. Louis, MO. Circa 1910.
Featured is an early stoneware coffee pot from the Cyrus F. Blanke Coffee Company in Saint Louis, MO. This stoneware pot has the Blanke name on the lid, and features their famous Blanke Devil image for their Faust brand of coffee. Circa 1910. The stoneware mug comes in two different handle styles, and also comes…
This is a very beautiful blue and white colored stoneware pottery coffee pot advertising their Log Cabin brand of tea from the C. F. Blanke Tea & Coffee Company in St. Louis, MO. Circa 1910.
This is a very unusual Town Talk Brand Coffee tin made for The C. F. Blanke Coffee, Tea & Spice Company based in St. Louis, MO, circa 1910.
