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 in many styles, so they had a big business across the entire coffee, tea and spice spectrum in the early to mid 1900’s era.
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…
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.
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…
Here is a very pretty bright orange tin store bin from the Banke Coffee Company which was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin years ago. This metal bin is from the 1900-1910 era.
Here is a beautiful old antique tin from the Chase and Sanborn Company for their Imitation Tea brand. This large coffee and tea company has remained in business for well over 100 years and continues to be a larger seller in the spice and drink marketplace. This tin encompasses an eye catching red and gold…
Here is a beautiful and very colorful general store era coffee bin from the long defunct Closset and Devers Mercantile Company out of Portland, Oregon. This particular bin was used in an old store most likely within 100 miles or so from Portland and allowed a long ago merchant to have his customers pull out…
Here is a beautiful tin spice bin from the Morey Mills Coffee Company which was based in Denver, Colorado in the early 1900’s when this bin was made. This particular bin would have been placed in a smaller general store where customers would scoop out the amount of spices they wanted when making their purchase.…
Here is a beautiful stoneware or pottery like coffee pot advertising the Meyer Brothers flagship brand of coffee, the Wide Awake Owl Brand. Typically the company used an owl as their logo on most of their advertising with large wide awake looking eyes! However, this particular fine china style coffee pot simply added their company…
This is a very colorful tin general store counter coffee bin from the Ridenour Bakery Company in Kansas City, Missouri. This bin held 50 pounds of bulk coffee, and was designed to allow consumers to simply scoop out the amount of coffee they needed each time. The Arabia’s Chief brand always featured an Arabic man…
Featured is a beautiful reverse on glass shoe sign from the Burt and Packard Company formerly in Brockton, Massachusetts. This sign advertises their Korrect Shape Brand of shoes. Circa 1905.
Featured is a beautiful tin coffee can from the Biklen Winzer Grocery Company in Burlington, IA. The can features a horse or thoroughbred image with the name Derby Coffee. Whether this is a correlation to the Kentucky Derby or not, I simply do not know. But it would make sense!
Pictured is an early coffee tin can from the Durand and Kasper Coffee Company, which was based in Chicago, Illinois. This particular can is a round canister with a removable lid. It dates to the 1905 era.
