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Montana Butte Brewery Lager Beer Ashtrays

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Montana Butte Brewery Lager Beer Ashtrays
For your consideration is this Montana Butte Brewery Lager Beer ashtrays, Butte, Montana. There are seven ashtrays in this collection shows glass construction with a square frame and a logo that reads Lager Butte Beer. The Butte Brewery was established by Henry Muntzer in 1885, nine years after Butte's first brewery, the Centennial. Beginning in the late 1890s, managers expanded production and built or re-built many of the brewery's buildings. In 1917, with statewide Prohibition coming in 1919, the brewery promoted its Eureka Beer as “Liquid food for temperate people.” The Butte Brewery was the only one in Butte that survived Prohibition, by producing malted soft drinks and other beverages (using the Checo brand), but it did not survive the economic downturn that affected Butte in the 1960s. They were out of business about 1963 and the brewery buildings were demolished soon after. The condition of this collection of glass ashtrays are good with no obvious signs of damage and in good overall condition. The measurements of this 1 1/4" x 4 1/4" x 4 1/4".