Vintage Vernors Ginger Ale GNOME GRAPHICS Lighted Clock, Sign,NEVER SEEN!

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Vintage Vernors Ginger Ale GNOME GRAPHICS Lighted Clock, Sign,NEVER SEEN! Beautiful clock and I cant find any like it. This clock is nice, no problems with anything I can see. No cracks, No peeling paint. Just one tiny scratch by the Gnomes hat. Hard to see you have to look close to find it in person. Any problems with the dial you see are just reflections or shadows.(unless noted) Runs, lights up and keeps time. The gold trim ring has some missing paint at the bottom (see photo) Not sure what Clock Company made this clock. There is no makers mark. If I had to guess it would be Swihart or the Universal clock company. Good condition overall. The cabinet is clean. You will be happy with this clock. Measures 15 inches across with a reverse painted advertising dial and a glass bubble covering the dial. This antique Clock seems to be quiet right now but no guarantee it will be without noise after shipped. These Old clocks were never intended to be used in homes so they were never perfectly quiet. This is out of my field so see photos and ask questions as what you see is the exact item you will receive. POSTAGE INCLUDES DOUBLE BOXED FULLY INSURED SHIPPING IN THE USA. YES I will ship to Japan. Just pay any additional postage....... Sold just as found. As is where is so know what you are bidding on. Stated postage is for the continental United States Only. Foreign postage will be more and calculated at the end of the auction. Vernors Vernors Ginger Ale is a soft drink, and the oldest surviving brand of such in the United States. It was created in 1866 by James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist. History Although Vernors is the oldest surviving ginger ale sold in the United States, there were a number of brands of ginger ale, ginger soda, and ginger beer sold in commerce prior to 1866. According to company legend, prior to the start of the American Civil War, while a clerk at the Higby & Sterns drugstore in Detroit, James Vernor experimented with flavors in an attempt to duplicate a popular ginger ale imported from Dublin, Ireland. When Vernor was called off to serve in the war, he stored the syrup base of 19 ingredients, including ginger, vanilla and other natural flavorings, in an oak cask. Vernor joined the 4th Michigan Cavalry on 14 August 1862 as a hospital steward, was promoted to second lieutenant on 20 September 1864, and was discharged on 1 July 1865. After returning from battle four years later, he opened the keg and found the drink inside had been changed by the aging process in the wood. It was like nothing else he had ever tasted, and he purportedly declared it "Deliciously different," which remains the drink's motto to this day. In a 1936 interview, however, his son, James Vernor Jr., suggested that the formula was not developed until after the war. This was confirmed in a 1962 interview with former company president, James Vernor Davis. Vernor opened a drugstore of his own on Woodward Avenue, at the corner of Clifford Street and sold his ginger ale at its soda fountain. According to the 1911 trademark application on "Vernor's" as a name for ginger ale and extract, Vernors entered commerce in 1880. City by city, Vernor sold bottling franchises, with operators of those franchises required to strictly adhere to the recipe. In 1896, Vernor closed his drugstore and opened a soda fountain closer to the city center, on Woodward Avenue south of Jefferson Avenue, near the ferry docks on the Detroit River to concentrate on the ginger ale business alone. Initially, Vernors was only sold via soda fountain franchises The early Vernors soda fountains featured ornate plaster, lighting and ironwork featuring a "V" design, examples of which still exist, such as at the Halo Burger restaurant in Flint, Michigan. Later Vernors was bottled for home consumption. James Vernor died October 29, 1927 and was succeeded by his son, James Vernor Jr. Expansion continued throughout Prohibition. In 1962, Vernors in... read more

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