Here is a Rams Head Ale Gillco Lighted Sign from the Adam Scheidt Brewing Company located in Norristown, PA. This Gillco Cab Light Sign is from the 1930s era and is in excellent condition for its age. The graphics on this Rams Head Ale Gillco sign is of a hunting or country scene of a silhouetted horse and rider with a group of dogs. The text at the bottom that reads “The Aristocrat of Ales” is one of the taglines that the Adam Scheidt Brewery used in a lot of their advertising at the time.
Signs like this Rams Head Ale Lighted Sign were made by the Gillco Glass Sign Company located in Philadelphia, PA. These style lighted signs are known as Gillco cab lights and taxi cab signs because they resemble a taxi car’s roof light. It is approximately 15″ wide by 11″ high and is made of a curved reverse-painted glass lens mounted in a backlit metal frame.
There are actually 2 variations of this Rams Head Ale Gillco Cab, all with slightly different text on the bottom of the sign. And there are another 3 variations of Adam Scheidt Brewery Beer Gillco Cab Lights with scenes of George Washington raising the American flag with a group of troops; click here to view one of them from my personal collection.
Below are a few of the other Adam Scheidt Brewery lighted sign variations:
