CLEVELAND & SANDUSKY BREWING CO Stock 1931. Formed 1898. F.W. Gehring E. Mueller

Description

The
Cleveland and Sandusky Brewing Company
. Stock issued on December 31,
1931. Incorporated in the State of Ohio
. Embossed company seal lower left. Certificate No. B4721 was issued to Joseph Leska for 50 shares of Common Stock (0 per share). Company capital was ,000,000 (M Preferred, M Common). Original ink signatures of company president secretary. Certificate is about 7.5” x 11”. Black print with dark-brown overprint/underprint.
Beautiful vignette with a seated allegorical woman.
The Cleveland and Sandusky Brewing Company was formed in 1898 through a merger of 11 northern Ohio breweries. These included the Cleveland firms of Baehr, Barrett, Bohemian, Cleveland, Columbia, Gehring, Phoenix (later Baehr-Phoenix), Star, and Union breweries; and the recently consolidated Kuebeler-Stang breweries of Sandusky, Ohio.
The Baehr, Barrett, and Union breweries were closed shortly after the merger, while 3 others were added to the chain:
Schlather (1902) and Fishel (1907) in Cleveland, and the Lorain brewery (1905) in Lorain, Ohio
. The oldest of the Cleveland & Sandusky breweries,
Gehring and Schlather, had been established in the 1850s
by Charles E. Gehring and Leonard Schlather.
The first president of the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Company was Frederick W. Gehring.
The company's general offices were Cleveland, Ohio.
Ernst Mueller, founder of the Cleveland Brewing Company, successfully served as president of Cleveland & Sandusky in its formative years in the early 1900s (following F.W. Gehring).
Mueller left in 1907 after a dispute arising from his opposition to the purchase of the Fishel Brewing Company, and then founded a new firm, the Cleveland Home Brewing Company. Most of the company’s smaller breweries were closed over the years, so that
of the company's Cleveland plants only Gehring, Fishel, and Schlather remained by 1919
. During Prohibition, the company manufactured carbonated beverages and near-beer at the Schlather bottling plant. After repeal, the only Cleveland brewery to reopen was
Fishel,
which resumed production in July 1933,
brewing Gold Bond and Crystal Rock beer and Old Timer's ale into the 1960s
. In Sandusky, the Stang plant reopened but was closed in 1935 following a 2-month strike.
Oscar J. Fishel headed the company during this turbulent decade but resigned in 1940 after a proposal to sell the brewery's assets to the
Brewing Corporation of America (Carling Brewing Company)
was defeated by stockholders
. Following 3 successive years of losses, Marvin Bilsky became president of the brewery in 1956. Bilsky's aggressive advertising and merchandising—in 1958 Cleveland & Sandusky became the first brewery in the nation to toast its malt, and in 1959 it introduced the throwaway bottle—were not enough to reverse the company's fortunes, however.
The Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Corporation, as it was last known, closed in the mid-1960s.
Condition:  Very Fine
, light vertical folds, minor creasing, no tears, minor signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos), punch and stamp cancelled.
Printer:
International Bank Note Company, New York.
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