Pictured is a gorgeous oval self framed metal sign featuring the once famous Hires Root Beer “Boy”. The Charles Hires Co. utilized this character on many of their early advertising items in the late 1800’s and into the 1930’s.
Featured is a beautiful tin tray advertising the Tuscarora Advertising Companies production capabilities including metal ash trays, signs, for brewers beer and cigar makers, along with other types of products.
Featured are a set of early Diamond Club Rye Whiskey porcelain KT&K style jugs from East Liverpool, Ohio. George Meredith was the brainchild behind this style of rye jugs, however, several other whiskey distillers would also use these OH produced jugs also in the late 1800’s.
Pictured is a very colorful advertising tip tray from the Hargadine McKittrick Dry Goods Business in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The tray is for their Gyspy womans hose legwear brand.
The Ghiardelli Chocolate Company based in San Francisco put out this beautiful advertising self-framed tin sign around 1900. The sign features a young girl with her doll and stuffed animals in a formal tea room like setting.
Shown here is a beautiful vitrolite advertising corner sign from the Roach and Seeber Company which was based in Waterloo, Wisconsin for many years. This corner sign still has its brilliant copper flashing framed border
Featured is a early pre-prohibition serving tray from the Stegmaier Brewing Company which was based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This tray features an awesome view of the pre-prohibition era brewery with a lot of activity.
Here is a really neat prohibition era cardboard sign from the Val Blatz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for their prohibition Malt Tonic Drink. The sign says the drink was “A Nerve & Muscle Builder”. This was a substitute after beer was outlawed by the government. The sign has a string attached via two small holes…
The Kansas City Breweries put out a series of Victorian lady serving tip trays before the start of prohibition, all very similar in style except the image of the woman is different. Circa 1910.
Featured is a beautiful tin sign from the Yankee Girl brand of cigars, circa 1900. The sign has a price of 5 cents per cigar, and boldly claims “It Equal Cannot Be Found”.
