Pabst Match Safe from the Brick Howse

[Admiral de Salee]

I washed this up after doing some coin cleaning with muh girlz: Olive Oyl and Dawn (the Indian is an 1899). I carefully opened up the top / mouth of the Pabst thing with a screwdriver so I could wash the dirt and veggie matter out.
I'm about 100% sure this is a match safe (see striking surface on bottom). You can see the pivot for the lid, which is missing. There's a small rivet sort of thing just visible 2/3 of the way down on the pivot side.
The color looks almost like Army olive-green or -drab. It could be WW2, but it looks more WW1-ish to me. Maybe the dating of the 'trademark' hop leaf logo will clear that up.

I've seen match safes on Antiques Roadshow, but unless I find the lid this one is incomplete. Maybe there's a Pabst museum that'll pay big bucks? I take back the joke about PBR = horse pee..

 

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[bootybay]

Neat Find for sure...I like it.

 

[Admiral de Salee]

Thanks, Rae. Who knows, this thing could be the Belle of the Ball for today's stuff. It's got to be worth more than the '99 I.H.

 

[Brendan M.]

That's a really awesome find. I LOVE stuff like that. I'd take something interesting like that any day over just another IH. WTG!!!!

Cheers and HH,
B

 

[Merf]

Nice

 

[PANNONIAN]

Great find! I would be very happy with! Congrats Pannonian

 

[civilman1]

That's pretty cool Admiral,hopefully you can go back and find the lid......Congrat's and Good Luck!!!

 

[Mona Lisa]

I love that. Truly a great piece.

 

[midirtdevil]

That thing is cool!! Nice find. KOD!!!!

 

[49er]

Unusual find there Admiral. Have not seen one of these posted on this site before, but I could be wrong. Has a Pap's before, not that bad but would not walk a mile for one...LOL.

 

[TimC]

What'll you have.....? I worked there in the 70's. The good ole days.

TimC

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Nice! I found a Budweiser match safe that has the date "Dec, 7, 1897" around the rim where your "patent applied for" is located, so I would say that it's the same time frame. Love the booze related stuff! Go back and see if the rest is there.

 

[DD-777]

That is one killer find!!! Anything you might want to trade for it?

 

[Admiral de Salee]

OK I found the post I was telling you about. It was T net member Jason in TN that told me his friend collects anything PBR. So maybe PM him. Good Luck! Heres the link to the post http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,180919.0.html

I was surprised to see this post 'bubble to the surface' again.
Thanks for the link, SharkPitMan. I'll check it out (as well as the other site link that was kindly provided). TimC may already have visited the Pabst site I found when this find was freshly-posted. I didn't even know the Milwaukee Brewery had closed. It stayed shuttered for a while, then someone bought the property, went in and found a trove of amazing museum-quality stuff.
When I was, ahh, 'active', I was a Stroh's drinker. "Fire-brewed", they said. 'Beer with the piss boiled out of it' was what we said.

The site owner lady has the match safe right now. If I find Jason's friend or some other interested party, I'm guessing she would sell. I couldn't find the lid on subsequent searches.

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Nice find!! "World's Greatest Beer"?? Hmm.. that might be a little over stating things!!!! :-) Good find none the less...

MB

 

[TimC]

Aye Aye, Admiral,

When I said I worked there, I should have said that I was employed there. Out of site, behind one of the beer storage tanks, was a door that opened into an underground tunnel. The tunnel had walls made of brick, arched overhead. Floor dirt. Off to the sides were arched openings to large underground storage rooms for beer storage before refridgeration. Two of the rooms were still open, several others were filled and sealed. The rooms were under the main parking lot. If they are still there, THAT is were I would like to hunt, Sir.

TimC

 

[crazyjarhead]

PBR was the beer back in the 60's That's a nice historic relic

 

[time4me]

That is WAY cool

 

[silverfreak]

Now that is an awesome find. Really neat

 

[douglas45]

IF ANYONE IS INTERS I HAVE A MATCH SAFE PABST BEER IN GOOD COND FOR SALE FOR A GOOD PRICE LET ME KNOW I CAN SEND PICTURES