Here is a Reading Brewery Strong Arm Tip Tray from the Reading Brewing Company located in Reading, PA. This Reading Brewery Tip Tray is from the 1900’s era and is in very good condition for it’s age.
The graphics on this Reading Brewery Strong Arm Tip Tray is of the brewery’s lithographed insignia of a strong arm with a fistful of wheat and hops with the RBC initials of the Reading Brewery at the bottom. The text on this tray reads “Reading Brewing Company” and “Reading PA”; and there is a latin inscription that reads “Dum Vivimus Bibamus” which translates to english as “While we live, let us live”. The Reading Brewery used this latin inscription on a lot of their early imagery, documentation, advertising and promotional items from when the brewery was established in 1886 to the early 1900’s era.