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Antique Wooden Beer Delivery Cart Wagon New York 1800's Shipping Available
$ 3960
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This is a wooden beer delivery cart from the 1800's, the condition is amazing! All original with a wonderful old surface and iron wheels, suspension and other interesting parts. There is an adjustable stand on the back that would be used to hold the cart in place at the delivery stop. There is suspension to handle the weight of the beer being transported. The wooden handle was used to push the cart down the streets of New York City. Here is the history of the brewery: According to Times Newsweekly, Samuel Liebmann, turned S L Liebmann Sons brewery over to his sons upon his retirement in 1870. Around the same time he established a 2nd brewery for his two sons-in-law. The brewery, called Obermeyer and Liebmann started shipping beer in 1868 and operated independently of S L Liebman’s Sons until 1924 when it was merged into that company. The name of the combined company was called Liebman Breweries, Inc.A legal notice dated February 8,1893 and found in the March 3, 1893 issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle stated:
Obermeyer and Liebmann do hereby certify that they are engaged in the manufacture of malt liquor for sale in butts, hogsheads, barrels, half barrels, casks, quarter casks, or kegs with their name or other private marks respectively branded or stamped thereon. That the following is a description of the name used and other private marks or marks branded and stamped or to be branded and stampedthereon, to wit:
OBERMEYER & LIEBMANN, BKLYN NY
That the county in which such malt liquor is manufactured is the County of Kings – Dated February 8, 1893.
We could not find much information about the Willets Manufacturing Company, Brooklyn NY. the makes of the cart, however we know that they also made fine large wagons for transporting people.
The cart is overall 60 1/2" long, 31 1/2" wide and 41 1/2" tall. The box that the beer was placed in is: Outside dimensions 45" long x 24" wide and 10" deep, the inside dimensions are 42" long x 22" wide x 8" deep. The wheels are: large 30 1/2" diameter, small 18" diameter.
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Item ID:
4007