Rare Original Girl-Shaped ‘Buy NBC Zu Zu Ginger Snaps Cookies Sign (Nabisco)

Nice paper sign made for general store, drug store, department store. Zu Zu Ginger Snaps were round drop cookies produced beginning in 1901 by National Biscuit Company (NBC) – later changed to Nabisco – until the early 1980s. The snaps were “a spicy combination of ginger and sugar-cane molasses” and came in a distinctive yellow box with reddish type. Sign States: “Buy some NBC Quality Cookies Now! Children Love Them.” Approx. Size: 36″ x 15.5 inches

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Original J. P. Alley’s Hambone Advertising Cigar Sign with African American Pilot – Lindberg’s 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic ocean

Vintage Original  J. P. Alley’s Hambone Advertising Cigar Sign Fan Pull

TThe image on the cigar box label is a satire on Lindberg’s 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic ocean (note USA on the left and the Eiffel Tower on the right side of picture).

Image of an African-American pilot flying a small yellow plane. The plane has the words “Going Over” painted on the side. The advertising indicates that the product is of the finest quality and is above all five cent cigars. An identical image is printed on the back of the card. The size is 7 1/8″ across and the advertising is printed on heavy-weight card stock with bright colors and a shiny gilt details.

More than one fantasy involves around HAMBONE cigars.  Hambone was the nickname of Tom Hunley, a folk-wisdom spouting ex-slave interviewed late in his life by a young Memphis editorial cartoonist James Pinckney “J.P.” Alley who was enthralled by Hunley’s humorously philosophical tone. Alley turned the old man’s pithy observations on life into a syndicated illustrated newspaper column called “Hambone’s Meditations” which debuted in 1916 and was soon followed by two books. When J.P. died in 1934, his son Calvin took over his work, and the Hambone character continued in papers until 1968.

Starting in the late 1920’s, two different cigar companies (over time, not at once) were licensed to market cheap cigars under the character’s name and Alley’s illustration. The image on the cigar box label is a satire on Lindberg’s 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic ocean.

Rare Local New Jersey Soda

Vintage “Lakewood Pale Dry Ginger Ale” distributed by Jacobson Bros, Lakewood, New Jersey Sign. Rare Local Soda – Sign created by The Harrison Co., Union City, Indiana. A piece of New Jersey History. Excellent bottle design picturing white swans on a tranquil tree-lined lake. Circa: 1930

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Calumet Baking Powder Butter And Eggs Revolving Price Display Advertising – Kitchen Ephemera

Original Calumet Baking Powder Butter and Eggs Sign

Vintage Original Calumet Baking Powder Butter and Eggs Sign; heavy paper blue advertising sign with four revolving number discs on the back, so the price of Butter and Eggs can be changed.  size: 14.25″ x 11 inches; circa: 1935;
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