Buffalo Brewing Co.
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Buffalo Brewing Co.
Sacramento, CA
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H.D. Beach: 8-B - Roses Still Life
H.D. Beach: 8-B - Roses Still Life
Date: 1903 - 1905
Size: 16.5" x 13.5"
Type: Inverted Pie
Scarcity: Hard to Find
Value: $$$ to $$$$
Condition & Brewer Dependent
Size: 16.5" x 13.5"
Type: Inverted Pie
Scarcity: Hard to Find
Value: $$$ to $$$$
Condition & Brewer Dependent
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General
No. 8 represents another of the Beach “doppelganger” trays—meaning a tray with a near twin with which it frequently gets confused. There are two Beach trays with roses lying on the ground; the “real” No. 8 and the similar doppelgänger (for which we’ve never seen an example that carried a stock number or any other manufacturer information) that at first glance seem to be the same tray. However, No. 8 has a greater number of roses on the ground and lacks the bit of blue sky in the upper left of the image that the faux version does. There is also something different about the quality of the lithography of the faux version that’s got a different, flatter feel to it and is far more scarce than No. 8 by an order or 7 to 1.
No. 8 represents another of the Beach “doppelganger” trays—meaning a tray with a near twin with which it frequently gets confused. There are two Beach trays with roses lying on the ground; the “real” No. 8 and the similar doppelgänger (for which we’ve never seen an example that carried a stock number or any other manufacturer information) that at first glance seem to be the same tray. However, No. 8 has a greater number of roses on the ground and lacks the bit of blue sky in the upper left of the image that the faux version does. There is also something different about the quality of the lithography of the faux version that’s got a different, flatter feel to it and is far more scarce than No. 8 by an order or 7 to 1.
No. 8
No. 8's Doppleganger
Confirmed Brewer used Stock Trays
Non-Beer Related & Non-Tray Uses
"Doppelganger" is a German word meaning a supernatural double of a living person, especially one that haunts its original counterpart. The concept of alter egos and double spirits has appeared in the folklore, myths, religious concepts and traditions of many cultures throughout human history. Egyptians’ mythology included the “ka”, the Norse “vardøger”, and Muslims the carin/garin.
The doppelganger concept shows up in literature from metaphysical English poet John Dunne, to Percy Bysshe Shelley in Prometheus Unbound, to Goethe, to Edgar Allen Poe. Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novel The Double explores the doppelgänger fully as an opposite personality who exploits the character failings of the protagonist to take over his life.
The doppelganger concept shows up in literature from metaphysical English poet John Dunne, to Percy Bysshe Shelley in Prometheus Unbound, to Goethe, to Edgar Allen Poe. Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novel The Double explores the doppelgänger fully as an opposite personality who exploits the character failings of the protagonist to take over his life.
Quite a number of films have also explored or included doppelgangers, particular horror films like Jordan Peele's 2019 film Us which finds the Wilson family attacked by doubles of themselves known as "the Tethered". More mainstream movies use the doppelganger too, like The Rise of Skywalker (2019), when Rey is looking for a Sith wayfinder on the ruins of the Death Star II, she encounters an evil version of herself.
The 1969 film Doppelgänger applied to concept to a non-person, involving a journey to the far side of the Sun, where the astronaut finds a counter-Earth, a mirror image of home. He surmises his counterpart is at that moment on his Earth in the same predicament. And of course, it was a theme explored in the Twilight Zone television series’ episode Mirror Image.
Roses (and flowers more broadly) were a popular theme at the time, not just in trays but a whole host of advertising and non-advertising items. There is an early Shonk stock tray featuring red roses and Meek & Beach (and later Meek) did a few trays that featured specific flowers as the primary subject. Perhaps the best-known artist of flowers at the time, Paul de Longpre (1855-1911) was a French painter who specialized in flowers (most frequently roses) who moved to New York and exhibited his paintings in 1906 which gained him instant recognition. With a delicacy of touch and feeling for color he united scientific knowledge and art. He also knew how to give expression to the subtle essence of the flowers. Painting floral scenes almost exclusively in watercolors, in the 1900s de Longpre found inspiration in the 4,000 rose bushes he planted on his Hollywood estate where he had relocated in 1900.
Roses (and flowers more broadly) were a popular theme at the time, not just in trays but a whole host of advertising and non-advertising items. There is an early Shonk stock tray featuring red roses and Meek & Beach (and later Meek) did a few trays that featured specific flowers as the primary subject. Perhaps the best-known artist of flowers at the time, Paul de Longpre (1855-1911) was a French painter who specialized in flowers (most frequently roses) who moved to New York and exhibited his paintings in 1906 which gained him instant recognition. With a delicacy of touch and feeling for color he united scientific knowledge and art. He also knew how to give expression to the subtle essence of the flowers. Painting floral scenes almost exclusively in watercolors, in the 1900s de Longpre found inspiration in the 4,000 rose bushes he planted on his Hollywood estate where he had relocated in 1900.
Paul de Longpre's
"Gathering of Roses"
"Gathering of Roses"
Size, Shape and Advertising Placement
All examples, of both designs, are oval. No. 8 shares the vine and leaf rim that features on No. 4 (both versions), while the faux version sports the “autumn” leaf version of No. 6 and 7 with the two “vignette windows” at 3 and 9 o’clock on the rim. Most examples have advertising text on the face of the tray, although a few occur on the rim like the Schaller example and there are examples (mostly non-brewers) with the ad text on the back. Interestingly Buffalo brewing has 2 variations (both of the “real: No. 8), probably attempting to get better visibility of the advertising text (the version with gold text on the face is difficult to read). Overall, this design tended to be more popular with non-brewers.
Hager and Price
Prices for brewery examples of No. 8 are significantly higher than non-breweries, reaching the mid-triple figures and even low four figures for the somewhat obscure Fremont Brewery of Fremont, ND. Non-brewers rarely make it out of the double figures and tend to be outperformed by stock examples that are in very good condition.
All examples, of both designs, are oval. No. 8 shares the vine and leaf rim that features on No. 4 (both versions), while the faux version sports the “autumn” leaf version of No. 6 and 7 with the two “vignette windows” at 3 and 9 o’clock on the rim. Most examples have advertising text on the face of the tray, although a few occur on the rim like the Schaller example and there are examples (mostly non-brewers) with the ad text on the back. Interestingly Buffalo brewing has 2 variations (both of the “real: No. 8), probably attempting to get better visibility of the advertising text (the version with gold text on the face is difficult to read). Overall, this design tended to be more popular with non-brewers.
Hager and Price
Prices for brewery examples of No. 8 are significantly higher than non-breweries, reaching the mid-triple figures and even low four figures for the somewhat obscure Fremont Brewery of Fremont, ND. Non-brewers rarely make it out of the double figures and tend to be outperformed by stock examples that are in very good condition.
