Lot 300: A Collection of Guinness Advertising Promotional Items

A collection of Guinness promotional and decorative items featuring iconic Gilroy advertising imagery. The group includes a Carrigaline Pottery water pitcher with a cream ground, black rim and handle trim, featuring the Guinness For Strength man with a steel girder graphic. The base bears a printed black circular mark reading CARRIGALINE IRELAND POTTERY. Also included is a double deck of Guinness Gold Cards playing cards in a black and gold-tone card slipcase; the decks remain sealed in original plastic shrink-wrap, one showing a Guinness Extra Stout bottle label design and the other a gold-tone harp logo. The lot further comprises a clear glass half-pint mug with a gold-tone harp and Guinness lettering, featuring an etched crown mark to the reverse rim reading HALF PINT above a crown and the number 886. A T-shaped acrylic counter-top display showcard contains a graphic of the Gilroy toucan perched on a pint glass with the slogan Will your next pint be as good as GUINNESS?. Completing the collection is a stoneware-style decorative ceramic bottle with an applied red raised harp seal, a cork with wire cage, and impressed lettering around the base reading GUINNESS IS GOOD FOR YOU.

The pitcher measures approximately 7 inches in height.
The acrylic showcard measures approximately 6 inches in width.