Pre-Prohibition beer bottle labels tended to be simple, using few colors and simply naming the brewer and their location. Some of the most collectible pre-Prohibition labels are die-cuts, cut specifically to accentuate the shape of a logo or the letters in a brand name. Post-Prohibition labels became more ornate and creative, often featuring mascots (such as the Hamm's Beer bear) and specific names for different brands from the same brewer.
I’ve been a beer stein collector for about 25 years. About 10 years ago I sold my business, a specialty dat… [more]
George Barone, an executive at Bank of America, is an avid collector of American beer coasters and the webmas… [more]
This pre-1965 collection is organized alphabetically by brand and contains scans of seemingly thousands of beautif… [more]
A quick tour of pre-Prohibition bock beer label designs with nice, high resolution scans. Do the whole slide show o… [more]
The guys at the Connecticut Chapter of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America have created a full-on tribute to t… [more]
Assembled by Gunther Rademacher with the help of several other contributors, this collection of over half a million… [more]
This site features photos of beer advertising openers from the early 1900s, organized alphabetically by state. But … [more]
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Though partially restricted to members-only, this site has a huge amount of free, publicly available and incredibly… [more]
This site features a fascinating variety of over 1000 beer bottle labels from around the world. Though focused main… [more]
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