December 3, 2008
Since beer has been brewed, there have been signs to advertise it, from wood to porcelain, tin to steel, celluloid to neon. Not to mention other formats such as Hamm's innovative (and highly collectible) fluorescent Scene-o-Rama. Some brands you may find on collectible beer signs include: Budweiser, Miller, Pabst, Hamm's, Glueks, Coors, Guinness, Blatz, Schlitz, Rolling Rock, Busch, Consumer's, Leinenkugel, Robin Hood, Acme, Central, Olympia, Knickerbocker, Colt .45, and more.
I’ve been a beer stein collector for about 25 years. About 10 years ago I sold my business, a specialty dat… [more]
How did I get started collecting advertising antiques? My dad was a lecturer and tutor in graphics and art fr… [more]
George Barone, an executive at Bank of America, is an avid collector of American beer coasters and the webmas… [more]
This classy looking British site features hundreds of high resolution photos of antique porcelain pre-war (enamel) … [more]
The guys at the Connecticut Chapter of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America have created a full-on tribute to t… [more]
If you're the type who pulls over when you see a 'historic marker ahead' sign, you'll love this site. Orchestrated … [more]
Assembled by Gunther Rademacher with the help of several other contributors, this collection of over half a million… [more]
This group artistic effort to catalog the signs of Pittsburgh captures many vintage signs (porcelain, neon, wood, t… [more]
This site features photos of beer advertising openers from the early 1900s, organized alphabetically by state. But … [more]
Ralph and Carol Falvo's excellent collection of automobiles, petroliana, jukeboxes, soda, and general store items. … [more]
This pre-1965 collection is organized alphabetically by brand and contains scans of seemingly thousands of beautif… [more]
Sam Baker's excellent collection of vintage Ford porcelain and neon signs and related memorabilia from the 1920s an… [more]
Norbert Lamping's collection of 600+ ceramic bottle stoppers, Hutter stoppers, swingtops, swivel stoppers, and ligh… [more]
Though partially restricted to members-only, this site has a huge amount of free, publicly available and incredibly… [more]
A quick tour of pre-Prohibition bock beer label designs with nice, high resolution scans. Do the whole slide show o… [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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