RARE Ca. 1930's Frantz Rye Bread Pin Pinback Pennsylvania ~ Extremely HTF

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Seller: Top-Rated Seller 3.stooges ✉️ (2,528) 99.7%, Location: Schertz, Texas, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 156005585477 RARE Ca. 1930's Frantz Rye Bread Pin Pinback Pennsylvania ~ Extremely HTF. RARE Ca. 1930's Frantz Rye Bread Pin (Not to be confused with Franz Bread)Estate Find... Extremely rare and impossible to find, from a large collection of rare pinbacks from PA. Measures 1 3/8" in diameter. Age related wear. From researching history from the web: Somerset County's history of alcohol production "BOB HALL Friedens:The Daily American" "During the early settlement of Somerset County, from the 1780s to the 1830s, one of the principal products of the farm was rye. Rye was plentiful and much more was harvested than farmers could eat or sell as food, so a considerable portion of the rye produced was distilled as whiskey."  "The first farm stills of Somerset County were created when two or three farm neighbors would agree to start a distillery at the largest and best spring they possessed. This fiery liquor was the universal beverage of men and women. Many people thought it was as essential as a loaf of bread. “Good rye whiskey,” one patriotic drinker said in 1814, “. . . was the drink for loyal men and women of the republic.” 

"Shultz, then Frantz Distillery, Berlin"

"When the 21st amendment passed in 1933, Charton Frantz of Pittsburgh stepped onto the scene. The land was bought and the buildings overhauled. Operations began and some of the finest whiskey in the United States was made there. During World War II whiskey was not made there, but rather alcohol for ammunition and rubber products were distilled there. Potato flour, yeast, syrup and cattle feed were added to their list. Trainloads of potatoes were brought and parked at every railroad siding near Berlin. The distillery began working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They produced 2,500 gallons per day. Getting rid of the refuse started a sideline business, the “slop” was used by area farmers to fatten their cattle and pigs. After the war ended work continued with potato flour being sent to Germany. In 1946 a fire destroyed the old dryer house, and in 1950 Charton Frantz died. By 1952 production ended with the remaining aged whiskey being sold until 1956."

Patent 2,000,384. METHOD OF  BAKING BREAD for May 7,1935 by Charton Frantz is shown in the last few pics. (not included in sale) just for reference.

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  • Condition: Used
  • Type of Advertising: pin
  • Color: Multi-color
  • Theme: Bakery & Baking
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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