Lot 84: Heineken Advertising Object

A Heineken Lager Beer counter top advertising display featuring a moulded composition figure of a Dutch boy in traditional costume with yellow clogs, blue shirt, brown trousers, and a hat. The figure is depicted smoking a pipe and stands beside a milk pail next to a moulded green beer bottle with an embossed bottle cap design. Both elements are mounted on a faux-wood grain plinth base featuring raised white lettering to the front reading Heineken Beer. The green bottle displays an applied paper main label with a central banner reading Heineken, an upper arch reading HEINEKEN LAGER BEER, and a lower arch reading BREWED IN HOLLAND, with a central five-pointed star outline. A paper neck label reads BY VAN MUNCHING & CO., INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. SERVE AT 45 degrees-50 degrees F. The shoulder of the bottle features moulded embossed lettering reading NO DEPOSIT star NO RETURN. The underside reveals a hollow plaster composition structure with internal wooden mounting blocks.
Height: 17 inches.