Aug 03, 2005 - Sale 2048

Sale 2048 - Lot 151

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ANONYMOUS GRANT'S FARM / BUDWEISER. Circa 1952.
24x371/4 inches.
Condition B+: tear in upper margin; staining in upper right corner; abrasions, scratches and fading in image. Cardboard.
A red Budweiser carriage full of beer kegs is being drawn through the gray gates of a farm Ulysses S. Grant founded in the 1850's, by the compnay's Clydesdale stout brown and white horses. Reproduced from a painting in the Anheuser-Busch collection, this is an original, three-dimensional cardboard advertising display that would have been issued to distributers or bars.