Gunther Brewing Company (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a young lady holding a glass of beer. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 3" x 4 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for a few light marks and a few creases running the length and width of the card. A Good copy. Trade card for Franz Falk Brewing Company's Export Beer and A. Gunther & Company, both of which were based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Franz Falk Brewing Company was founded in 1866 by Franz Falk (1824-1882), a German-American immigrant from Bavaria. Falk actually began his business from a previous brewing company, Goes & Falk, that he had co-founded with Frederick Goes in 1855 or 1856. Falk already had plenty of experience with brewing before the founding of Goes & Falk and eventually became a local legend in the Milwaukee brewing industry. Franz Falk Brewing Company later partnered with A. Gunther & Company. Trade cards were antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.

Wraps. Condition: Fair. Dean, Charles (Drawings), and Keppler, Victor (Pho (illustrator). Presumed first edition/first printing. 40 p. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. Cover has some wear and soiling. Tears at spine. Scarce in any condition. WWII era item. Gunther Brewing Company is a historic brewery building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The site comprises 15 masonry buildings. The main structure is a five-story brick "L"-shaped Romanesque Revival-style brew house with a two-story brick ice plant built about 1910 and one-and two-story boiler room. Additional brew houses built in 1936 and 1950 are also on the property. The Tulkoff Factory and Warehouse was built about 1964. It was home to the George Gunther, Jr. Brewing Company, founded in 1900. By 1959 it was the second largest brewery in Baltimore, when it produced 800, 000 barrels per year and employed approximately 600 people. Hamm's Brewing Company bought the Gunther Brewing Company in 1960. Later acquired by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company in 1963, the plant was closed in 1978. The Tulkoff company briefly used the factory for their sauce products at the conclusion of all brewing operations. The former brewery has been redeveloped into a modern, mixed-use building called The Gunther, much like other Canton buildings. Gunther Brewing Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.