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Beer In Ads #2288: Three Rings, Seals

May 26, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1939. In this ad, part of a series progressing from one, to two, to three rings, a talented seal is balancing rings on its nose, first one, then another and finally the three rings of the Ballantine logo. His wings even grew a thumb so he could order a beer “the Handy way.”

Ballantine-1939-seal

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



Comments

  1. Chris Brosnahan says

    May 27, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Does anyone remember or have a link/access to the Mel Brooks/Carl Reiner Ballantine Beer radio commercials of the 1960s (The 2,000 year old brewmaster)???

    • Jay Brooks says

      May 27, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      Do you mean this?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PswLLN8-4

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