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 small regional breweries provided most of the beer drank locally before the behemoths came into prominence starting in the 1950s era.
Here is a beautifully colored 1907 souvenir lithograph from the Theo R. Helb Keystone Brewing Company which was formerly in York, PA. This souvenir giveaway is similar to many breweries which handed out yearly calendars in the 1900 era. However, most of these pieces are very hard to find, and many are simply lost to…
This metal or tin serving tray from the Northampton, Pennsylvania Brewery advertised their Pilsener brand of beer. This tray is very colorful, has the ability to attract a potential customers eyes to their product visually with the great beer bottle graphics and color, and of course, advertised a local product in and around the Northampton…
Here is a nice version of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Brewing Company for their Emmerling brand of beer.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here is beautiful metal or tin serving tray from the Bethlehem, PA based Uhl Brewery. The Uhl Company sold Lager Beer as indicated on this tray. The tray is a stock tray, meaning this image was used by many different companies in the 1900-1915 era prior to prohibition.
Here is a great and very early metal serving tray from the Henry Zeltner Brewing Company which was in New York City. This particular tray advertises their Old-Fashioned beer style and also their Dark and Light along with their Extra Pale brands of beer. This particular brewery was in a very competitive New York City…
Here is one my favorite stock trays, the dogs playing poker and drinking beer while smoking cigars! This particular version of this stock tray comes from the Buffalo Brewing Company out of New York. Being a stock tray, this simply means that many different advertisers chose this image and then asked the printing companies to…
Featured is a beautiful old wood or wooden beer brewing company box from the Griesedieck family-owned Western Brewing Company which was in Belleville, Illinois prior to prohibition. This box would have carried 24 bottles of beer in it and is the forerunner to the more modern cardboard boxes which started in earnest after prohibition ended…
Here is a beautiful pre-prohibition serving tray from the JG Schemm Brewery which was based in Saginaw, Michigan. The colors on this tray are remarkable, and very representative of the Chas. Schonk tray manufacturing company out of Chicago, IL. The tray verbiage is rather simple, as it simply states “Pure Malt Beer”. I am sure…
