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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.—Kinky Friedman

Art Nouveau Frank Jones Homestead Ale  $48.00

Today it’s PRE-PROHIBITION TIP TRAYS:   These smaller trays were used to return the change to the tavern patron just as they are today. In days of old breweries used the opportunity to place advertisements in front of the beer drinkers.  http://beertrayscom.home.comcast.net/~beertrayscom/bttip.html

He was a wise man who invented beer.—Plato

Early 1900’s Hyroler Whiskey Tin Litho Advertising Tip Tray $75.00

While most of the trays advertised alcoholic beverages, some did featured ads for cocoa, tobacco, dry cleaning companies, stove manufacturers and even political parties.  

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. —Henry Lawson

Bartels Beer Tip Tray Shonk Edwardsville Pa $110.00

While tip trays were not considered valuable when they were being used in bars an restaurants, many costumers and employee thought them great souvenirs, so finding one in your parents or grandparent’s attic might be a real possibility.  Kovels–August 2013

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. —Kaiser Wilhelm

1900s Maltosia Beer Lithograph Tin Tip Tray $195.00

 

An auction in 2013 sold from $60 (Old Reliable Coffee Tray with mark and nicks) to $720 (J. Christopher G Hupfel Brewing Company tray with outer-edge rim nicks)

Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world. —Jack Nicholson

Pre Prohibition Dallas Brewery Home Beer Tip  $200.00

 

Prohibition was a period of nearly fourteen years of U.S. history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It led to the first and only time an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. …In 1919, the18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol, was ratified. It went into effect on January 16, 1920…On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, making alcohol once again legal.   http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/p/prohibition.htm

They who drink beer will think beer.—Washington Irving

Pre-pro C. Pfeiffer Brewing Co. Tip Tray – Detroit  $240.00

 

 Illegalizing the production, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages – all of which were corollaries to the amendment – did not curb the desire…for liquor or beer. This great demand for and simultaneous illegalization of alcohol opened up a new illegal market for the gangster to develop and monopolize.  As Al Capone put it, “All I do is to supply a public demand … somebody had to throw some liquor on that thirst. Why not me?”(Sullivan, 111).  

There is no such thing as a bad beer. It’s that some taste better than others. —Billy Carter

Vintage Bohemian Export Lager Beer Pre Pro Tip Tray Union  $325.00

 

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.  –Arnold Schwarzenegger