BEER-GARDEN  –  NOTHING  IS  FINER

Allsopp’s Garden. Beer garden with many guests partly sitting in an arcade, drinking Allsopp’s Imperial Stout and India Pale-Ale and Burton Ale – 20 centimes per glass. The gentlemen with cigars throughout. Lithograph printed in brown. C. 1870. 59 x 84.5 cm.

Below left revenue stamp canceled with the mark of an Antwerp company. – The usual folding marks nearly invisible in consideration of the thin paper. Only few restored tears and a larger gap replaced by similarly toned paper in the sky.

Pictorially  as  stylistically  fascinating  poster

the figures of which are secondary compared with the advertising.
Offer no. 13,214 / EUR  614. / export price EUR  583. (c. US$ 814.) + shipping

„ das ‚Haupt-Schwein‘ ist gut … angekommen und gefällt … falls sich weitere Funde … auftun, freue ich mich über Ihre Nachricht “

(Herr W. S., 29. August 2002)