Original Unused Pictorial Receipt
- San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, 1911
San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, 1911. Fine. San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, n.d. but after 1910. Pictorial receipt (17.5x21cm) printed on blue stock with printer's slug of Schmidt Lith. Co. Very slightly darkened along margins, else a Fine example.
Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E. Schraubstadter and E.D Groezinger. The company had been charged with selling white wine as champagne: "It is alleged that the 'champagne' is California white wine charged with carbonic gas." They were also indicted for putting labels on their American-made products to make them look like foreign imports. This receipt most certainly dates from after this fracas, the masthead reading "Manufacturers of high grade sparkling wines. Growers and dealers in California wines and brandies."
Reference: "The San Francisco Call and Post," Nov. 2, 1910.
Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E. Schraubstadter and E.D Groezinger. The company had been charged with selling white wine as champagne: "It is alleged that the 'champagne' is California white wine charged with carbonic gas." They were also indicted for putting labels on their American-made products to make them look like foreign imports. This receipt most certainly dates from after this fracas, the masthead reading "Manufacturers of high grade sparkling wines. Growers and dealers in California wines and brandies."
Reference: "The San Francisco Call and Post," Nov. 2, 1910.