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The Best Wines, Liquors, Ales & Lager Beer, Rosenthal, 1871

A saloon sign in English and German.

What

A colour lithograph by L. N. Rosenthal, The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here, 1871; Library of Congress, LCCN 93506842.

Why

A sign a saloon keeper could hang in his window, lettered twice for a city of immigrants.

Notice

Champagne, a carafe, a stein and a plate of oysters crowd the table, and the German line reads Die besten Weine, Liquöre, Ale und Lager Bier sind zu haben hier.

“The American saloon, bilingual.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: L. N. Rosenthal
Country: United States
Format: Other
Piece published: The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here LCCN93506842, 1871
Source: Library of Congress · LCCN 93506842

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Scan: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; public domain. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Published 1871, before the 1930 cutoff; maker L. N. Rosenthal; Commons reads Public domain with {{LOC-image}} {{PD-Layout}} {{PD-US-expired-text}} {{PD-old-100-1923}} {{PD-old-100-expired}} {{PD-old-X-expired}} {{PD-old-text}} {{SDC-PD-old}}. Mark status dead is the registrar's reading of an old mark; no trademark search was run, so confirm before launch.

This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.