Irish Guinness Pub Label Ahern Co. Clare 1941

This label has characteristic date codes.
Read in pairs from right to left, gives the day, month, and year of bottling - for example:   
M. Ahern, Main Street, ENNISTYMON,
is the 24th of February 1941.  

This coded practise of dating labels ceased in 1953.

Genuine Bottle Label of this Period and From This pub -NOT a reproduction. 

Extremely fine paper was used on Guinness Labels. It is not possible nowadays to reproduce this very fine thin paper.

 Whenever required, a ream of labels was posted to the publican - each of these reams contained approximately 660 labels.  Guinness labels were never pre-glued.  The publicans prepared their own wall-paper paste.  There was a knack in holding the label - butterfly fashion and dipping into the paste - and slapping it on to the bottle!

Genuine bottle label of this period and from this pub - not a reproduction

Guinness labels

Labels were first put on Guinness bottles in 1895.

The practice of putting the publicans name on Guinness labels stopped in the late 1960s

Collecting Guinness labels can be fascinating. Some show different variations in the amount of strings in the harp - also the way they are often printed off centre etc.

Guinness Brewery

The Guinness family became the most successful brewing dynasty and one of Ireland's greatest commercial success stories of the 19th century. Founded by Arthur Guinness (1729 - 1803), son of a Kildare land agent, he commenced brewing in Leixlip in 1756 and three years later took over a disused brewery at James Street in Dublin. His son, also Arthur, inherited the brewery along with his father's extensive flour milling interests. He became a director of the Bank of Ireland in 1808 and a governor from 1820. Like his father, he was a committed member of the Church of Ireland, and active in a range of philanthropic ventures, Arthur 11 supported Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform, but declined to back Daniel O'Connell's repeal agitation.

Guinness's Dublin brewery initially produced ale and beer, to which by the 1790s it had added the darker drink, porter. From the 1820s its better porters had begun to be described as 'stout', 'double stout' and later 'triple stout'. Initially it produced mainly for the Dublin market, but English outlets expanded rapidly from the 1820s and by 1840 accounted for more than half of total sales. The period of most dramatic growth was from the 1850s. By the 1930s it had become the seventh largest company in the world.

Measures:   2.75" X 2.35"

Condition: Unused.

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