Beer Wine Liquor Advertising Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Rare mid-1930's Frank Jones Ales serving tray from Portsmouth, NH Brewery, pre-prohibition style.  Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century New Hampshire. The tray is...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool 1930s ashtray made from Opalex advertising Bass Pale Ale and Bass Stout. VINTAGE: Circa1930's SIZE: Approximately 1-7/8" in height and 5-5/16" square. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Opalex. ATTACHMENT: None. MARKINGS: "OPALEX...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare circa 1920 William Jameson & Company Irish whiskey “spinner” pourer. At one time Dublin’s 2nd largest whiskey distillery, Jameson’s “Marrowbone Lane” location was started in 1752 and ceased operations in 1923. William...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare and great pre-Prohibition (circa 1905) advertising corkscrew or bottle opener for W. Ashton Horn, a Somersworth, New Hampshire bottler and agent for the Portsmouth Brewing Company (aka the Harris and Mathes Co.). Open your ale,...

ARTIFACT: Nice 1930’s Frank Jones Ale bottle opener from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century New Hampshire. The opener reads: “FRANK JONES ALE”...

ARTIFACT: This is a minty circa 1935 tip tray for Portsmouth Ale, made by the Eldredge Brewing Company (EBC) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Eldredge Brewing Company (first known as M. Fisher Brewing Co.) was established in 1860 and was a competitor...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s advertising sign for Feigenspan’s P.O.N. (Pride of Newark) beer. Bought out by P. Ballantine & Sons around the Second World War, Christian Feigenspan Inc of Newark, New Jersey was a huge brewery in its day. The sign is in...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful circa 1935 glass foam scraper on a large red Catalin plastic base advertising Hanley’s Ale of Providence, Rhode Island. The gorgeous enameled brass disc with the bulldog mascot is what would have been used to top a Catalin...

ARTIFACT: This is an important circa 1935 advertising sign for Krueger’s Beer & Ale: the first canned beer! The sign is by American Can Company in eye-catching colors and features a guest appearance by the Newark-based brewery’s “K Man”. The sign touts...

ARTIFACT: This is a Seagram’s bottle pourer made in England from the 1930s. Seagram’s was a Canadian company, and well-poised to sell whiskies to the over-dry neighboring US market at the close of Prohibition. The pourer consists of a hollow metal tube...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1890’s STOLL Brewing Co. Troy, New York porcelain enamel beer tray. The tray is red, white, and blue featuring a flying eagle carrying a beer barrel in its talons, the center of the tray reads: “Stoll Brewing Co. TROY, N.Y. BREWERS OF...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1900 Guinness’s Extra Stout (E & J Burke Bottler) advertising bottle opener in silver plated cast iron and white metal. The base of the early, figural, beer bottle opener is in the shape of a Guinness beer bottle and reads:...