Lone Star Brewing Co.
Sabinas Brewing Co.
San Antonio, TX (1884 to 1996)

Information from American Breweries II ( Author: Dale Van Erwin, Publisher: Eastern Coast Breweriana Association - 1995)

Legal Name	AB-II Code	Dates
Lone Star Brewing Co.	TX 76a	1884 - 1918
Mission Brewing Co. (Never Produced Beer)	TX 76b	1933 - 1933
Sabinas Brewing Co.	TX 76c	1934 - 1939
Champion Brewing Co.	TX 76d	1939 - 1940
Lone Star Brewing Co. (Owned by Muelbach of MO)	TX 76e	1940 - 1949
Lone Star Brewing Co.	TX 76f	1949 - 1976
Lone Star Brewing Co. (Subsidiary of Olympia Brewing Co.)	TX 76g	1976 - 1983
Lone Star Brewing Co. (Subsidiary of G. Heileman Brewing Co.)	TX 76h	1983 - 1983
G. Heileman Brewing Co. - Stroh Brewing Co. - Pabst Brewing Co.	TX 76i	1983 - 1996

Documented Serving Trays for this Brewer

Links to Other Sites

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Carpathia Tray Mfg Co. (NY)

1900

1918

12"

0.5"

Plate

Plated (Copper)

Link to Lone Star Brewing Co. of Austin & Fort Worth, TX

We are not sure the of any association from the original company, but great to have a nice tasting beer with a classic advertising presence back available for consumers.

Pictured in the link - Lone Star Light - a great light summer beer with broad distribution underway!

Comments:

Picture capture unknown. Please contact us if you would like credit. Extremely rare copper plated tray.

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Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Suspect Chas. W. Shonk Co.

1900

1918

12"

0.5"

Plate

Lithograph

Comments:

Picture capture unknown. Please contact us if you would like credit. Extremely rare litho factory tray - if anyone has a better picture we would really like to upgrade ours. Also we are very interested in confirming the tray manufacturer if someone who owns this tray can look for a manufacturers mark on the tray. We suspect Shonk based on the pattern being similar to many of their trays.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Suspected to be Meek & Beach

1900

1918

14"

17.5"

0.75"

Inverted Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

Picture capture unknown. Please contact us if you would like credit.

We are very interested in confirming the tray manufacture and dimensions. The design may be considered a self framing tin versus a tray. Tango was a non-alcoholic brand made by Lone Star.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1908

1933

12"

SS Dish

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Mark Rogers.

Also from the Coahuila Mexico brewery. Tray is believed to be from the early 1920's. Suspected to be manufactured by Chas. Shonk given the design similarities to several Shonk pre-pro trays.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Continental Can Co.

1904 - Present

1958

13"

1.75"

SS Dish

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Mark Rogers.

Noted as "Common" but they are difficult to find in very good to mint condition.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1960	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Lithograph

Comments:

Picture captured via Auction. Please contact us if you have a better picture and we will certainly credit your contribution. Notice the connection of "Certified Quality" and same logo as the dark blue tray issued in 1958.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1961

1962

13"

1.75"

SS Dish

Lithograph

Comments:

Picture captured via Auction. Please contact us if you have a better picture and we will certainly credit your contribution. Note the slogan changing from "Certified Quality" to "a million a day Say..." and the connection to the plastic billboard tray using the same.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1965	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

From the Collection of Mark Rogers.

Same design, with a new slogan "makes the most of natures best."

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1967	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

Picture captured via Auction. Please contact us if you have a better picture and we will certainly credit your contribution.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1970	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

From the Collection of Charlie Staats.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1970	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

Picture captured via Auction photo. Please contact us if you have a better picture and we will certainly credit your contribution.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1980	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

Picture captured via Internet photo. Please contact us if you would like credit.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	2020	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

Picture captured via Auction photo. Note this tray and beers at that time are not associated with the original company. They are attributed to the new Lone Star Brewing Co. of Austin and Fort Worth.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1955

Rippled

Aluminum

Etched

Comments:

From a Private Collection - owner chooses to remain anonymous.

We are very interested in confirming a tray manufacture on this tray if anyone has any additional information. This design reflects the "Going Places" campaign used by Lone Star in the mid-1950's.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1955	13.0"	13.0"	1.75"	SS Dish	Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Mark Rogers.

Note the use of the logo from the aluminum 'Going Places' tray to the first of the gold trays, "Certified Quality" issued in 1960. They then moved to the more modern design that was in used until the brewery closed in 1996.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1934

1939

13.5"

10.5"

0.75"

Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Charlie Staats.

There are three versions of this tray (Sabinas version) - two have a flat safety rim and have slightly different colors. This is the more green version without the tray manufacturers mark.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Burdick

1934

1939

13.5"

10.5"

0.75"

Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Charlie Staats.

There are three versions of this tray (Sabinas version) - two have a flat safety rim and have slightly different colors - this is the lighter blue version with a tray manufacturers mark in the lower right of the blue pin stripe - 'Burdick - Chicago.'

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1908

1933

13"

0.75"

Inverted Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Charlie Staats.

Extremely rare tray. Sabinas was initially brewed in Coahuila, Mexico, approximately 200 miles southwest of San Antonio in 1908. The name was not directly connected with beer brewing in San Antonio until right after prohibition where you begin to see the rectangular light blue Sabinas and Travis trays. Follow this link to find out more about the Sabinas - Lone Star connection.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1934

1939

13.5"

10.5"

0.75"

Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Mark Rogers.

There are three versions of this tray (Sabinas version). This is the rolled safety rim version.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1934

1939

13.5"

10.5"

0.75"

Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Charlie Staats.

There are two versions of this tray (Travis version) - both have the flat safety rim. One has a silver eagle (this version) and the other has a gold eagle.

Manufacturer

Stock

Date

Width

Height

Depth

Style

Art Application

Unknown

1934

1939

13.5"

10.5"

0.75"

Pie

Lithograph

Comments:

From the Collection of Mark Rogers.

There are two versions of this tray (Travis version) - both have the flat safety rim. One has a gold eagle (this version) and the other has a silver eagle.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1964	14"	14"	0.75"	Shallow Edged	Plastic

Comments:

From a Private Collection - owner chooses to remain anonymous.

Extremely rare tray issued by Lone Star to drive their distributors to invest in billboard advertising in their sales markets. The Image in the square represents what the billboard would look like and the message below refers to advertising terms of what is available. '24 Sheet' indicated the billboard would be made up of 24 different sheets, that would be applied in a matrix form and resulting in the larger full display. A single sheet is 27" x 41," so once complete the display would be 20'6" long and 9' high. (thanks to Joe Philbin for the explanation).

Note the "a million a day" reference once again and the header notation of "3 Million a day..." - we assume the connotation being that Lone Star was challenging distributors to help them increase sales and that investing in billboards was one of the ways they could do so. Fascinating view into the marketing of the day.

Manufacturer	Stock	Date	Width	Height	Depth	Style	Art Application
Unknown	No	1967	13"	13"	1.75"	SS Dish	Painted

Comments:

From the collection of Charlie Staats.

Hard to find version of the common 1967 Yellow, White and Red trays that appears to have been hand stamped to advertise the Oklahoma Lone Star connection. These were associated with the Oklahoma State Fair that year.