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C1919 Harvard BEER TAP HANDLE KNOB Connecticut Lucite New York CT Brewery Mass.
C1919 Harvard BEER TAP HANDLE KNOB Connecticut Lucite New York CT Brewery Mass.
C1919 Harvard BEER TAP HANDLE KNOB Connecticut Lucite New York CT Brewery Mass.
C1919 Harvard BEER TAP HANDLE KNOB Connecticut Lucite New York CT Brewery Mass.
C1919 Harvard BEER TAP HANDLE KNOB Connecticut Lucite New York CT Brewery Mass.

C1919 Harvard BEER TAP HANDLE KNOB Connecticut Lucite New York CT Brewery Mass.

$ 20.59

Availability: 64 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Modified Item: No
  • Object Type: Tap Handle, Knob
  • Condition: Used
  • Brand: Harvard
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Featured Refinements: Vintage Beer Tap Handle
  • Theme: Breweriana, Beer

    Description

    Original Harvard Tap Knob. Looks to be lucite on bakelite with original screw for bar tap. Minor damage to a small space over the words Harvard Brewing- see pics.
    Info: The brewery's beginnings go back to 1894. In that year a group of eastern New England beer distributors, lead by John Joyce and John Coffey, organized the Consumers' Brewing Company. A name change was made, to the Harvard Brewing company, in 1898, with John Joyce continuing as the company's president.
    That Harvard was a biggie, especially by New England standards, was highlighted by the leading trade paper of the day, The Western Brewer, in its monumental ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BREWING, published in 1903. Its glowing write-up of the brewery must have been a source of great pride in lowell:
    "(The plant) consists of two separate and complete breweries, one for lager beer and the other adapted to the brewing of ale and porter, a mammoth bottling house, magnificent office building, stables, cooper shops, carriage houses, etc. The annual capacity of the plant is three hundred and fifty thousand barrels.
    "The products of the company are sold throughout the Eastern, Central and Atlantic Coast States. The plant is the largest of its kind in the New England States, and is considered to be one of the finest and best equipped breweries in the United States."
    The company was raided in1925 for making illicit beer where 3,000 barrels were seized by prohibition agents. They closed the plant until 1933.
    When beer bounced back in 1933, Harvard bounced right back with it. The brewery had been purchased for 0,000 by New York interests, headed by Erwin F. lange, in late 1932. Considerable monies were put into the plant and its equipment, with the result that Harvard was in remarkably good shape as it entered the next chapter in its history.
    The were shut down again in 1942 by the FBI.