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Original Vintage Posters - April Sale
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LOT 34:
Advertising Poster Scotch Ale Younger Beer Zeppelin Airship Cartoon. Original vintage alcohol drink advertising ...
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Advertising Poster Scotch Ale Younger Beer Zeppelin Airship Cartoon. Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster for Scotch Ale issued by Wm Younger & Co Ltd Brewers in Edinburgh featuring a great cartoon by George E. Studdy (George Ernest Studdy; 1878-1948) of a zeppelin airship exploding and smoking in the sky over the rolling green hills of the English countryside above the fields and windmill with the pilots in aviation clothing, hats and goggles falling from the blimp to their death smiling as they drink Scotch Ale from their glasses and bottles, a smiling bird drinking the foam from one bottle, with the poem below reading: When accident, to your surprise, O’ertakes your airship in the skies, Do not, I beg, give way to flurry, But drink Scotch Ale and do not worry. The William Younger & Company Brewery was founded in Edinburgh in 1778 in the grounds of Holyrood Abbey by Archibald Campbell Younger; the company was registered in 1887 and was producing a quarter of all Scotland's beers by the 1900s; in 1986 the Holyrood Brewery complex closed (now the Scottish Parliament building), and in 2017 the brand was sold to Marston's Brewery. Scotch Ale is a type of beer that refers to a strong pale ale produced in Edinburgh Scotland. Fair condition, paper browned, staining on margins, small restored paper losses on margin. Country of issue: UK , designer: George E. Studdy, size (cm): 43x28, year of printing: 1922.
