Advertising & Americana

An exciting evening offering of an exclusive, single-owner Toronto collection. The offering is clean and fresh-to-the-market. It includes advertising signs and palm pushes, posters, calendars and diecuts, animated displays, and related memorabilia mostly from the 1940s to the 1960s. The subjects include tobacco (Black Cat, Sweet Caporal, Kool); soda (Coca-Cola, Orange Crush, Hires, Whistle); and general store; and beer (Blatz, Strohs, Molson's). The sale includes a variety of hand-selected and hard to find posters from the glamour girl / pin-up era. There is an impressive line-up of wild and zaney 1950s and 1960s animated beer signs in excellent functional condition. Also, the collection includes an impressive line-up of microphones by Shure. Astatic, American and more. Overall, this sale is a treasure trove filled with the ingredients of America?s golden age.