Featured is a beautiful sailboat scene on a metal serving tray for the J. H. Cutter Whisky brand, made by the C. P. Moorman & Company in Louisville, Kentucky. As was somewhat common around 1900, the spelling of whiskey is actually spelled as whisky on the tray, with a missing “e”. The tray is a…
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.
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…
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!
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…
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.
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.
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.
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 Tin Counter Display Can.
