£120
Advertising Poster Scotch Ale Younger Beer Car Motoring Cartoon. Original vintage alcohol drink advertising poster for Scotch Ale issued by Wm Younger & Co Ltd Brewers in Edinburgh featuring a great cartoon by George E. Studdy (George Ernest Studdy; 1878-1948) of two policeman in uniform wading through water and looking in shock at a white convertible car that has crashed through a wooden fence into a ditch with the driver holding up a bottle and glass of Scotch Ale in triumph, the poem below reading: When roads are soft and hills are long, Or when your steering gear goes wrong, And you explore a ditch in Surrey, Just drink Scotch Ale and do not worry. The William Younger & Company Brewery was founded in Edinburgh in 1778 in the grounds of Holyrood Abbey by Archibald Campbell Younger; the company was registered in 1887 and was producing a quarter of all Scotland's beers by the 1900s; in 1986 the Holyrood Brewery complex closed (now the Scottish Parliament building), and in 2017 the brand was sold to Marston's Brewery. Scotch Ale is a type of beer that refers to a strong pale ale produced in Edinburgh Scotland. Fair condition, paper browned, staining on margins, small restored paper losses on margin. Country of issue: UK , designer: George E. Studdy, size (cm): 43x28, year of printing: 1922.
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