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It all started with Samuel Liebmann, a 19th century German immigrant who set up shop in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn following the Civil War. He soon after turned over operations to his sons. S. Leibmann’s Sons Brewery would be the name synonymous with the brand, the first “Rheingold” lagers appearing in the 1880s. The name has been attributed to the Rhine River region from where their father had originated, with another more interesting tale stating it was awarded during a toast by the head of the Metropolitan Opera, who claimed it the color ”Rhein”—a legendary ring made of gold from the same Rhine region. By the 1910s, the brewery had absorbed multiple Brooklyn competitors and was among the largest brewery productions on the east coast. Navigating Prohibition by selling tonics, “near beer,” and even lemonade, the brewery came out of that period with giant expectations. Attempts to spread the brand nationwide were mixed, despite Rheingold advertising being everywhere, with the annual “Miss Rheingold” competition (beginning in 1940) a central piece of the strategy. For a brief time in the early 1950s, S. Liebmann’s Sons held the title of largest American brewing operation, the brand’s advertising connection to baseball (and especially the New York Mets in the 1960s) ubiquitous across the middle decades of the 20th century. But fierce competition and the local loyalties of regional beer drinkers the nation over, soon saw the brand retracting back mostly into the Northeast. Rheingold would continue through the 1960s before being bought out in the 1970s. Licensing deals through C. Schmidt’s of Philadelphia and then G. 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Accompanying text from the governor boasts of the construction of new dams along the Missouri River that will vastly increase the state’s agricultural yields and bring “immense amounts of electrical energy.” The back promotes the state’s unique topography with plains meeting the mountains. Predictably, there is no mention of Native Americans, their deep regional roots, and connection to the Black Hills, promotion instead geared towards hunting, fishing, the western character of the state, and, of course: Mount Rushmore. 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Central to the illustrated design is the marine terminal in the state capital. The Port of Wilmington is a shipping dock which extends into the deep confluence of the Christina and Delaware Rivers. Just to the left of this is a nod to crabbing and fishing, water industries crucial to this ‘First State’ of the Eastern Seaboard. Going clockwise from the top of the montage there is the Old Powder Mill in Wilmington, then a depiction of ‘Truck Farms (Tomatoes)’ to acknowledge the state’s farming industries. Next is the Delaware Memorial Suspension Bridge in New Castle, The (Old) State House in Dover, a collection of labeled tin cans to commemorate the food packaging industry, and the University of Delaware in Newark. Above this the state flower, peach blossom, adorns a small graphic of the entire Diamond State. Rounding out the left edge of the design are Old Swedes Church in Wilmington and a bathing beauty on Rehoboth Beach. 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The maker, The Wilton Company of Columbia, Pennsylvania, was a renowned manufacturer of fine metals who had 50+ years of experience making metal works designed, mainly, to imitate an earlier pewter style (a remnant of the family-owned business still in operation today). Proudly displaying a “USA” stamp on the back, it could not be more appropriate for these most memorable games … Of course, the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics are best remembered in the States for the “Miracle on Ice.” The amateur U.S. team, made up of mostly college hockey players (an average age of 21 putting them into the tournament as the youngest team), defeated for all intents and purposes a professional team from the U.S.S.R. \/ C.C.C.P., the Soviet Olympic team equivalent to a pro National Hockey League team, if not a team of NHL all-stars. (Case in point, the Soviet national team, which contained many of the same players, went 2-1 in exhibition play against the NHL all-stars just the previous year.) Cruising, surprisingly, through group play without a loss, including a tie and impressive win against the powerful Swedish and Czechoslovakian teams, respectively, the upstart U.S. team was, nonetheless, given no chance against the mighty Russians, who had won the previous four Olympic gold medals in hockey. And yet, the rest we (of a certain vintage) know well. Despite a furious second period attack, which had the Soviets up 3-2, the U.S. team played with nothing to lose in the final period, clearly rattling the Russians, and winning 4-3. “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” yelled an equally disbelieving Al Micheals in calling the final seconds of the game … Along with 1932, this was the second Winter Olympics to be held at Lake Placid, New York, and the third in the United States (Squaw Valley, California: 1960). It also came at a supercharged time in world history. The Soviets had invaded Afghanistan the previous year, which had prompted President Jimmy Carter to call for a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics to be held in Moscow (a boycott that most western democracies would abide by); and all of this while 62 Americans remained hostages in Iran. But despite the hot geopolitical tensions, the games at Lake Placid included the entire Eastern Bloc of nations—East Germany eventually going home with the highest total haul of medals @ 23—with the communist People’s Republic of China fielding a winter team for the first time. 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At the bottom of the plate are the names of six other Washington state communities located on the Kitsap County peninsula. Annapolis, Port Orchard, Silverdale, Poulsbo, Bangor, and Keyport all have ties to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. 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The “Tramps Abroad” author wrote often of how leaving familiar environs was critical to opening up one’s mind. Yet the man born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri, located 40 miles southwest of Hannibal, remained close at heart to the Mississippi River towns that had shaped him. They inspired many of his most beloved, but also controversial, stories. Circling the outer edge of this ceramic dinner-sized plate are these images: “Becky Thatcher House”, “Life on the Mississippi”, “Tom \u0026amp; Huck Statue”, “Treasure Chamber Mark Twain Cave”, “Tom Sawyer’s Room”, “Mark Twain Cave”, “Statue of Mark Twain”, and “Mark Twain Memorial Bridge”. Samuel Clemens lived in Hannibal from age four to age seventeen, moving in 1853 to begin life as a writer. He took his pen name from what was called out by boat workers when the depth of the river reached two fathoms, or ‘mark twain’. 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The line opened in 1882 to run between the then recently founded town of Durango, Colorado, and a mining community in Baker’s Park. That entire region around the San Juan Mountains experienced a mining boom that began at the start of the 1880s and lasted until the 1910s. It was facilitated by the construction of the Denver \u0026amp; Rio Grande Railway. The plan to construct a narrow gauge branch that would climb the 45 miles from Durango to the mines at Baker’s Park, creating a means to transport metal ore as well as sightseers, relied heavily on the labor of Chinese and Irish immigrants. And the land claimed by prospectors as Baker’s Park, where the town of Silverton would be platted once that new narrow gauge railway reached its boundary, was, like most Western territories, already home to a Native Nation. The Wiinuuchi Ute band were relocated out of that Animas River region and forced further west in the state. 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It tells a clear story of growth and vitality, while hinting at a hidden one. Ocean City itself dates to the late 1800s and is at the northernmost tip of Cape May County in south coastal New Jersey. It truly is an “ocean” city bordered on its front by the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Egg Bay at its back west-facing side. This is a near pristine example of maps that were sponsored by local industry in the post WWII era: a finely detailed map of the “product” (house plots), as well as an ad for the company, in this case: Ocean City Home Savings \u0026amp; Loan. Eager to extend “Direct Reduction Mortgage Loans,” the comprehensive real-estate grid and street-level map also includes a list of churches and, tying into the map and city’s pitch: city recreation spots. Of course, the hidden story concerns the local associations and chambers who were often a motivating force in the makeup of such maps (if not directly involved in the buying and selling of properties). 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Vernon Kilns had an art staff in-house, and for the most part avoided depictions in this “Bits Of” line which would become cringe worthy. An example of where this was not the case can be found on ‘Mississippi’ in its state plates series. (I leave it to the reader to research this for themselves.) “Blanket Weavers” is a copyrighted design and appears on this transferware plate in a warm color palette very appropriate for its Southwestern theme. 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The popularity of Daytona Beach as a late 20th century party spot, alongside the 1970s being the last stand of this specific mid-century graphic-illustrative style gives credence to our hunch … But lest we overthink it, it’s a Daytona Beach shot glass emblazoned with a pink flamingo. Enough said. 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Unfortunately, he would not live to see the thing for which the brewery would become famous across the 20th century: the metal beer can … Having honed its near beer brewing across the 1920s, the Krueger Brewing Company was able to rebound instantly following the 1933 passage of the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. By 1935 they were set to try a novel delivery device for their product. Just in case it was poorly received, the first steel cans were sold in Richmond, Virginia, the furthest point of Krueger’s distribution at the time. The can strategy, of course, did not flop and instead ushered in a revolutionary product delivery method that continues to evolve in our day. Among beer can collectors, The original Krueger “Special Beer” cans are the Holy Grail. Being inheritors of a family collection and collectors ourselves, we have never seen one of the originals; but offer a 1980s replica found at an estate sale along with this fantastic metal bar tray. Given that Krueger Brewing Co. barely made it out of the 1950s once the era of regional breweries gave way to nationally situated corporations, we place this tray (sporting the “K-Man” logo) as circa late ‘50s. These trays were highly popular features of the “in-home” bar and this one in particular is in fantastic shape for its age. There are only a few nicks on its front rim, the back circular edge showing a similar yet standard pattern of nicks and the light rust that comes with it. There is no maker’s mark. 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As a consequence, the 1990s saw huge increases in skiers coming to Vail from both near and far. Judging by the logo and font on this heavyweight prism shot glass, it probably came from a souvenir shop during that decade’s surge of new resort visitors. And the tourism business certainly did not go downhill from there. From its discovery as a no-name peak with good snow, Vail’s reputation grew until it was top notch among American resorts. It remains one of Colorado’s - and the whole mountain west region’s - most popular skiing destination points. Cheers to that! [Condition: Used Very Good. 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Buffalo Bill Cody, renowned for his Wild West Show, was born in 1846 in the Iowa Territory, and lived in various places, notably Canada and the Kansas Territory, before using the profits from his performance troupe to establish a ranch in North Platte, NE. His house, the ‘Mansion on the Prairie’, was the largest in the area and he lived there from 1886 to 1913. It became a Nebraska state historical park in 1965. Cody wore many hats over his life, as a hunter, soldier, showman, and rancher. He raised a large head of cattle in North Platte, adding his own herds to what the state still calls its number one industry. Agriculture is the economic powerhouse of the Cornhusker State, and edging out even corn for the top product is beef. A white-faced Hereford illustration on this plate represents meat packing, as that English breed was the type which made Nebraska’s corn fed beef so popular. 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And yet the Grand Canyon is entirely in Arizona, more than a 15 hour drive from the tri-state region of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho that houses Yellowstone. It turns out this is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, and it’s located deep in northwest Wyoming, just south of Montana’s border and east of Idaho’s. The other six images which this plate features are found in various parts of the park. Central to the design is Old Faithful (so recognizable it wasn’t even captioned), which is located along with other geysers in Wyoming’s Upper Geyser Basin. Morning Glory Pool (aka Spring), Fishing Bridge, Mammoth Hot Spring Terraces, and Yellowstone Lake - the largest high elevation lake in North America - are also in Wyoming. So then is there anything here for Montana and Idaho? Well luckily the designers of this collectible dish included a feature that is not tied to one geographical place. Twin bear cubs could well be seen anywhere in the 3,472 mile park boundary. 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A little sleuthing puts the likely date of publication in the mid 1920s. The atlas booklet’s index does mention the Theodore Roosevelt Int’l Highway (one of the very first coast to coast “auto trails”), but makes no mention of the iconic north-south Taconic State Parkway through the Hudson Valley, construction of which did not begin until the late 1920s. Finally, the map makers themselves provide the central clue: Lawton and Henry Crocker’s National Survey Company. Setting up shop in Chester, Vermont, the brothers produced a fine portfolio of maps and atlases like “The Official Maps of New York,” the 1920s their most productive era. They would find stiff competition from the much larger Rand McNally and shift to primarily regional travel publications across the Northeast, but while in the roadmap game they produced maps as fine as they came. 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Heavy on colonial and Revolutionary War history, it begins: “This year, 1970, marks the 300th anniversary of the first English settlement in South Carolina. In April, 1670, a group of about 150 people landed at Albermarle Point on the Ashley River at Charleston.” Given the celebratory nature of the map and the boosterism animating much of the brochure side, it is no surprise that there is no real mention of the slave trade that would make South Carolina’s Charles Towne (Charleston) one of the wealthiest cities of the colonies and fledgling America, with only hints at slavery itself via mentions of stately plantations. In turn, the state’s tie to the Confederacy includes brief lines about the Civil War on a sidebar timeline: the state having been the first to secede, and the shelling of Fort Sumter in April 1861; other Civil War references framed within the stale mythologized, if then still celebrated, “Lost Cause” mindset. 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