Original Cobb & Co's Margate Ales Poster

Here we have an absolutely gorgeous colour lithograph poster for "Cobb & Co's celebrated Margate ales". The imagery is fantastic; a beer bottle with an incredibly detailed label is lodged into the bullseye of a target; it has 'Hit the Mark'!

Cobb & Co brewers were an institution in Margate. Francis Cobb, known locally as King Cobb(!) built a brewery in Margate in 1760. In 1808 a second brewery known as the Margate Brewery was built at 27 King Street by Francis Cobb Junior (the son of the founder).
The Cobb family fortunes were also in banking, shipping and insurance.
Ultimately the brewery was acquired by Whitbread & Co. Ltd in January 1968, the brewery closed October 1968 and was demolished July 1971. From what I can see, the site of the main brewery is now Kent Police's offices (besides the Margate Police Station). Former Cobb warehouses and offices can still be seen in town, they're mostly, if not all housing.

This poster is likely to date to the 1920s and it would seem that a lot of unused marketing material was recovered from the Cobb's offices after their closure in the late '60s including a stack of these posters. They were distributed amongst collectors at the time with examples like this one returning to the market every so often. A lifetime spent stored away and then in the hands of a collector has resulted in the poster remaining in excellent order - the colours are bright and vibrant and excepting for a slight central fold-line, a couple of faint creases and one very small stain in the upper left corner (just a rust-coloured dot) there's nothing to note.

The poster has been professionally framed and is ready to hang.
Including the frame, it measures 76cm wide x 51cm high.