Coolest piece of beer memorabilia

I have my great grandfathers Shlitz glass. It holds a whole bomber with room to spare!

 

My last name is Burkhardt and there used to be a Burkhardt Brewery in Boston and Ohio, have an opener and some bottles plus two plaster made signs one is a mug with the name on it and the other is like a bar scene sign with the brewery name. Pretty cool piece of history

 

I bought a case of Three Stooges bottled beer sometime in the 1990s, carefully opened the cardboard case from the bottom, pulled out the 6-packs and gave three of them to family members and kept one for myself. Over a few weeks period, we all opened them and drank them. (A not-so-good American Adjunct Lager.) Then after a good rinse and drying period the caps were put back onto the bottles, placed in the 6-pack carriers, and put back into the cardboard case. So I have an intact case of empty Three Stooges beer bottles with caps.

Okay, so it's not so old or really very historical, but that's the coolest piece that I have.

 

Have 2 etched Alaskan Smoked Porter pint glasses from 1994

 

I found these artist's sketches (approx. 4.5" X 10") on thin tissue/tracing paper, "foxed" and all crumbled up in a box full of "misc. paper" in an antique shop at least 35 years ago. No other artwork or breweriana in the box. I have no idea if they were ever used by the brewery, but based on the ad on my page, they probably date from 1948 or a bit earlier.

I always thought that both the bottle shapes and the label placement was "off" in the first drawing, but it turns out that's not true for the latter - Fuhrmann & Schmidt (Shamokin, PA) did put that era label near the base of the bottle (as seen in that same ad).​

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I've got file cabinets and boxes full of breweriana, and an entire bookcase full of beer books, and while I can't say these are even close to "favorites", they are pretty cool "one of a kind" pieces.

 

somewhere (quincy I think) I have a pair of pint glasses from the very first beer fest in Portsmouth N.H . So long ago I don't remember too much except there were only 4-5 breweries at the event. Also have a small pilsner glass from the early 70's that I use on a regular basis.

 

A "No.1 Barley Wine" mirror manufactured for Bass circa 1900.

 

About 20 years ago, we were cleaning out my Grandmothers' attic for a garage sale before she moved. Among the piles of crap, I found an envelope from Smith's Brewery in Philadelphia dated 1906. Inside, there were 12 color prints of old Philadelphia taverns. She had no idea where they came from or why she had them, but gladly gave them to me. I framed and matted them and they have hanging in my basement bar ever since. Here are a couple of them--the colors are much bolder in real life, I couldn't get a decent picture with the flash.