Collectors Corner
Brewery and beer related items are collected by quite a lot of people. The range
of "breweriana" includes beermats, beer labels, commemorative bottled beers,
ashtrays, bar-towels, trays, matchstrikers, advertising figures and other
advertising/promotional material, bottle openers - in fact if it has a brewery
or beer name on it, someone will collect it. There are even people collecting
paper napkins with brewery names on them.
Commemorative bottled beers received a lot of publicity around the time of
the Queen's Silver Jubilee (1977) and the Charles and Di Royal Wedding (1981),
and a lot of people bought these beers. If you have some of these beers and
think you are sitting on a gently appreciating asset, then that is a problem.
A lot of people bought these beers and there are still many of them around. Few
of the Silver Jubilee or Royal Wedding beers are worth that much and some,
particularly from the national or large regional brewers, are at best worth
no more than you paid for them when they appeared. However, a few are scarce
and do have some value. Perhaps worth more than £10 are the following beers
from the two events, with those marked * probably worth more than £50:
- Gales Silver Jubilee (half pint and corked half pint*) and Royal Wedding Ale;
- Godson Freeman & Wilmott Jubilee Ale*;
- Guernsey Brewery Jubilee Ale (nip);
- Hyde Anvil Brewery Pale Ale (550ml and 730ml*);
- Three Tuns Jubilation;
- Litchborough Brewery Silver Jubilee Special Ale*;
- Three Tuns Salutation*;
- Phillips Brewery Royal Love Potion (550ml and 1100ml);
- York Brewery Jubilee Real Ale (550ml);
- Yates & Jackson Royal Wedding (own bottling*
and LYH bottling*);
- Tisbury Village Blacksmith Royal Wedding (corked pint);
- Shepherd Neame Wellington Salute (550);
- Turners Star Brewery Royal Flush*.
Anyone interested in collecting bottled beers? The Association of Bottled
Beer Collectors would like to hear from you. Contact Graham Tubbs, Membership
Secretary, 66, High St., Puckeridge, Ware, Herts SG11 1RX.
ALE November/December 1996 No. 286
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