Piel's Beer Jumbo Can and Bottle Opener This vintage beer and bottle opener advertising Piel's Beer is marked: Piel's Jumbo Opener/Vaughan USA 61/The Beer With The All Beer Taste/Piel Bros., Brooklyn, N.Y. 2080
Remember their commercials of the animated comedy team of Bert and Harry Piel, fictitious owners of Brooklyn's Piel Bros. brewery. During the 1950s and 1960s, New Yorkers fell in love with the cantankerous, loud-mouthed Bert and befuddled, soft-spoken Harry who got their voices from the comedy team of Bob and Ray. Commercials typically depicted the brothers stumbling through some sort of promotional endeavor for Piel's Beer only to be foiled by an unexpected snafu, setting off Bert's temper and Harry's futile efforts to calm him. The pair became so popular that thousands of letters were mailed to them at the Piel's brewery, and the Bert and Harry fan club numbered over 100,000 members. But critics pointed out that, while Bert and Harry were undeniably entertaining, they did little to support any particular image or attribute for Piel's Beer. In the end, the critics proved right. Bert and Harry went down in history as the textbook example of that all-too-common advertising dilemma: Good reception, poor response. During the initial six years that the duo hawked Piel's Beer, the brewery's sales, on average, grew less than 1 percent per year. Bert and Harry even poked fun at the problem in one of their commercials. Some of you and you know who you are were laughing at our commercials and not buying our beer. The free ride is over! yelled Bert. We have a new theme: I'm laughing with Piel's in my hand. What's fair is fair!
In used condition it is rusted which I have shown in my pictures which I will leave to the new owner to tend too and it measures 4 3/4 inches long and 3/4 inches wide. An addition to any Bar or Breweriana Collection.
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Manufacturer: Vaughan/Made in USA  

Dinkel Acker Beer Advertising Boot Bar Display This rather large bar display boot advertising Imported Dinkel Acker Beer was made by CD Crest and also marked The Mercedes of Beers. Made of glass, the boot is surprisingly light with large black letting and the CD Crest underneath. In very good condition, there is a small fleabite in the rim, which I have shown in my pictures and it measures 12 3/4 inches tall, 4 7/8 inches across the rim and 7 1/4 inches deep. A wonderful addition to any Bar Display or German Beer Advertising Collection.
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Manufacturer: CD Crest/Dinkel Acker Beer  

Rheingold Extra Dry Lager Beer Bar Display This Rheingold Extra Dry lager Beer Bar display is marked on the red hard plastic insert:
Property of Liebman Breweries Inc. Brooklyn, N.Y./Display No.47X/Designed by Austin & Austin Inc., N.Y., N.Y.
In 1850, Joseph Liebman, son of German brewer Samuel Liebman, purchased a small brewery in Brooklyn, New York when he emigrated from Germany to escape political persecution. As the rest of his family, including his father and two brothers, emigrated to America, they continued the family brewing tradition. They soon out grew the original brewery and built a new one on the corner of Forest and Bremen streets in Brooklyn. They were successful in the New York City beer market, largely due to their ability to obtain the best hops available for brewing (due in no small part to the marriage of Joseph's son to the daughter of the best hops merchant in the United States, himself also a German immigrant). Eventually, the Liebman family built the business into what would become one of New York's most popular beers. Rheingold Beer was known as New York's Beer, and at it's height in the 1940s to 1960s, Rheingold Beer had a 35% share of the beer market in New York City.
Rheingold shut down operations in 1976, when they were unable to compete with the large national breweries. Corporate consolidation and the rise of national breweries led to the demise of dozens of regional breweries. The Orange, New Jersey brewery was the last facility to close.
The label was revived in 1998 by Terry Liebmann and partner Mike Mitaro According to an October 18, 1999 New York Observer article, Mitaro's Rheingold Brewing Company LLC bought the brand and Liebmann is a relative of Rheingold's founding family. In 2005, Drinks Americas of Wilton Ct., whose iconic brands include Trump Vodka and Dr. Dre Cognac, purchased Rheingold Brewing.
The display itself being chromed is very shiny and in excellent condition, without the usual pitting seen on these pieces and has a red plastic panel in the front center that has Rheingold Extra Dry Lager Beer in white and black lettering. There is a hard red plastic insert with 3 compartments to hold coasters and napkins etc. that is in great condition without chips, cracks or fleabites and it measures 6 inches tall, 10 1/2 inches long and 3 3/4 inches deep. A wonderful addition to any Breweriana Advertising Collection.
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Manufacturer: Austin & Austin/New York  

Czech Gambrinus Beer Advertising Boot Glass This boot advertising Gambrinus Beer is marked: Gambrinus/Der Zutrinker/Holzschmitt UM 1512, on the back is marked: 0.25 l/rastat.
Czech popular beer. Gambrinus pale lager is distinguished by its rich gold color and ample foam. Its outstanding feature is the full-bodied flavor with fine bitterness. The unmatchable flavor ensues from the use of the highest-quality domestic ingredients, the famous Pilsner water and local brewers experience developed over generations.
Made of glass with gold band trim, the boot is heavy and has air bubbles, which I have shown in my pictures. In very good condition it holds 10 ounces when filled to the rim and it measures 5 1/2 inches tall, 2 3/4 inches across the rim, 2 inches wide across the bottom of the boot and 4 1/4 inches long. A wonderful addition to any Bar Display or Beer Advertising Collection.
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Manufacturer: Holzschmitt  

Germany Landsknechts Beer Advertising Boot Glass This boot advertising Landsknechts Beer is marked: /Ein Guter Trank Des Dank/Landsknecht UM 1593/Holzschmitt Georg Lang, on the back is marked: 0.25 l/rastat.
Landsknecht Bier, Munich Dunkel Lager style beer from Fürst Wallerstein Brauhaus in Wallerstein, Germany.
Made of glass with gold band trim, the boot is heavy and has air bubbles, which I have shown in my pictures. In very good condition it holds 10 ounces when filled to the rim and it measures 5 1/2 inches tall, 2 3/4 inches across the rim, 2 inches wide across the bottom of the boot and 4 1/4 inches long. A wonderful addition to any Bar Display or Beer Advertising Collection.
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Manufacturer: Holzschmitt/Georg Lang