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Featured here is a beautiful lithographic print from the John Graf Brewing Company which was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin prior to prohibition. This lithograph features an amazing image of his brewery at the corner of Greenfield and 17th Street. The lithograph also promotes his Weiss beer brand of beverage, a commonly sold product in many of…
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The Warner Safe Cure Company in Rochester, New York was a prolific seller of medicinal products designed to cure so many diseases which truly were not cured for almost 100 years after their product claimed it cured those ailments. Strangely enough some of those same cures are still not cured even today by modern medicine.…
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This stunning reverse on glass advertising sign comes from The Edward Warren Featherbone Company, founded in 1883 in Three Oaks, Michigan, very near the Indiana border and Lake Michigan. The Warren brand was a huge seller, and was well known for using huge stiff feather quills in their line of woman’s undergarments. Although Mr. Warren…
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This spectacular self framed tin sign from the Indianapolis Brewing Company was put out to commemorate the breweries award winning success at the St. Louis 1904 Worlds Fair event. This metal sign has an image of a goddess like creature with a building which is possible the fine arts building and certainly shows the…
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Featured is a beautiful pre-prohibition era metal or tin serving tray from the S. Bolton’s Sons Brewing Company, which is from about 1910. This brewery was a prominent one in early Troy, and collectors can find various pieces of advertising from this brewery still today. Unfortunately like so many other breweries, the business ceased to…
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Featured is a rather colorful cardboard advertising sign from the Kent Factory of the National Biscuit Company, advertising Portland, Maine brand of Purity Kiss biscuits. Biscuits in the early 1900’s was another name for salted crackers, similar to Saltines in today’s modern marketplace. This sign features two kids on a swing, eating the Purity Kiss…
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The metal serving tray from the William J. Lemp Brewing Company in St. Louis, MO truly portrayed an image of elite society or high class with their Top Hat Man image or logo used in much of their 1900 era advertising. This particular Chas Shonk produced tray shows a elegantly dressed man eating oysters and…
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Featured here is a beautiful self-framed tin sign from the Huey and Christ Whiskey Distilling Company out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Bailey’s Pure Rye was the companies flagship brand, and their slogan of “Good For a Lifetime” was used for years with this product. It is not surprising the company used a colonial America looking…
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Featured here is a very nice metal serving tray from the Geneva Brewing Company out of Geneva, New York. This pre-prohibition era tray says “Ask For Geneva Home Brew” which was one of their beer products this upstate N.Y. brewer made in the pre-pro era before prohibition ended their run. The tray is a stock…
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The Virginia Dare brand of high end wine products produced by the Garrett Wine Company was once the biggest selling wine in the United States. Popularized as a lower priced wine, this was an era before the California wine industry took off. Garrett and Company had their Eastern office based in Richmond, Virginia, and the…
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