AAA Historical Americana - World Exonumia. I COLLECT and seriously want to buy, for my personal collection Rockford area BEER, BREWERY items. I am a long-term collector of exonumia: tokens, medals, badges, ribbons and other small collectibles. I am seriously interested in adding to my collections, and would like to buy your items. PLEASE offer any items in the following area of: Rockford AREA BEER and SODA items: I collect beer and soda advertising items from Rockford area towns, such as Belvidere, Freeport, Pecatonica and Rockford. Specifically, I seek BEER and liquor items issued by any of the following breweries, such as trays, signs, beer scrapers, etched glasses, tokens, etc., but NOT beer bottles (but I do seek liquor bottles). The following is a list of known breweries from this area, with only a few known items from these brewers:

name annual barrels In business to: BELVIDERE, Illinois.   J. Heywood. 500 ca. 1885 Frederick Finder. 2,000 1888 Geo. J. Schlenk. 500 ca. 1905 John Waldock. 15 ca. 1875 FREEPORT, Illinois.     Bear Brewing Co.   1910 Knipschild.   ca. 1870 Haegele and Roth. 1,000 1895 Franz Bros. 1,500 1898 McGee Brothers.   1854 Wade.   1856 Helena Hertrich.   1869 (issued Civil War Token) Baier & Seyfarth. 5,000 1891 Baier & Ohlendorf. 18,000 1891 B & O Brewery.     Jos. Milner & Bros. 500 ca. 1880 George Milner & Co.   ca. 1905 Yellow Creek Brewery.     M. Schmich & Co. 5,000 1896 Franz Bros. Brewing Co.   1917 Schmich Bros. Brewing Co. 12,000 1910 Schmich Bros.     Fritz Brewing Co.   1937 Sterling Brewers Inc.   1937-1939 Pecatonica, Illinois     Wm. Berridge. 500 ca. 1885 Charles Hayer. 500 1888 Ernst Wenzel. 500 1894 Rockford, Illinois.     J. W. Diamond. 135 ca. 1875 Fisher, Wahl & Co. 495 ca. 1875 Fisher & Wahl. 1,000 1892 Aug. Kauffman. 1,000 ca. 1885 Lill & Diversey.   1846 Jonathan Peacock. 1,000 ca. 1885 Jonathan Peacock & Son. 3,000 1896 Peacock Brewery. 4,000 1899 Rockford Brewery.   1903 Rockford Brewing Co.   1936 Rock River Brewing Co. Samuel Hirsch.   1940 Peterson & Davis. 5 ca. 1875 A. Schlenk.   ca. 1875 Graham's Sour Mash Wiskey. Decanter known.   Geo. Lincoln Excelsior Lager. amber bottle known.   Rockford Brewing Co.   1998-99. I am also interested in buying advertising items from area pop and soda bottlers, but NOT bottles. I seek trays, glasses, openers and other advertising, but not printed cards. If you are interested in Illinois or other U.S. brewing, please check the U-Permit Index. Rockford Area Pop and Soda Bottlers. Belvidere, Illinois.   Dooley & Mullen.   James Walsh.   Freeport, Illinois.   Baier and Ohlendorf.   Johns and Lyman.   Galloway & Lyman.   John Schmich.   Matt Schmich.   Jacob O. Young.   Rockford, Illinois.   Boyer Brothers.   J.M. Clarke.   J.A. Holland.   Bob Lincoln.   George Lincoln.   Alfred Lundquist.   C.J. Nelson.   Rockford Hygiene Spring Co.   P.W. Welch, bottler.   Wilson Bottling Co., Inc.   If you have any item from any of these issuers, or other area BREWING, Liquor or soda/pop items, please advise. I am seriously interested in buying such items for my personal collection, NOT for resale, and will pay top dollar for quality items. Information on this page from "The Register of United States Breweries", Friedrich and Bull, and from "Soft Drink Bottling: A History with special reference to Illinois", Paul-Parmalee.

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