Empire & Export · 1892–1929 · Japan · Australia · French Algeria

Trade Winds

The bar the empire built — beer, rum, sake, and colonial wine advertising from Tokyo to Brisbane to Algiers.

Where the Belle Époque wall stops at the Atlantic, the same commercial-art wave carried further on colonial and export trade: Japanese beer houses selling to a modernizing empire, Australian colonial breweries and distillers, French Algeria's settler wine trade. Most of these marks never stopped pouring — Kirin, Asahi, and Australia's XXXX and Tooheys are still on shelves today. Sold strictly as art history, flagged live throughout, the same rule as the Champagne Wall.

This collection is thin by design, not by neglect. A dedicated research pass searched colonial Africa beyond Algeria, treaty-port China (Tsingtao), and French Indochina (Vietnam) for real, independently hosted period advertising and came back with almost nothing that clears this house's confirm-by-direct-fetch bar — see DECISIONS.md for the honest accounting of what was searched and what still isn't there.