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Beer In Ads #1232: Blacksmith Romance

June 24, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Ballantine Ale, from 1941. It’s part of a series of ads Ballantine did under the umbrella name “Early American something,” in this one, for example, it’s “Early American Interlude.” I find this one a little creepy. It reminds me more of the cover of a romance novel, with a smiling colonial babe peering in at a shirtless blacksmith.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Ballantine, History



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    June 26, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Outsized heads & exaggerated butt cheex on the smithy also are weird!

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