5 Vintage Advertising Shoehorns - Regal, Hanover, Alexander's, AS Beck, Fayva

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5 Vintage Advertising Shoehorns - Regal, Hanover, Alexander's, A.S. Beck, Fayva
Vintage A.S. BECK SHOES Old Advertising Metal Shoehorn - A piece of forgotten New York
Hungarian immigrant Alexander Samuel Beck opened his first shoe store on Fulton St. in Brooklyn in 1919 and reached the peak of success with 147 stores in 1947.  Now all that remains of the once thriving shoe empire is an iconic sign on at 128 W 34th St in New York across from Macy's Herald Square.  Read the more of the interesting story in the gallery photo from the Forgotten New York website.
Shoehorn reads: A.S. Beck Shoes / Stores in Principle Cities
Regal
Regal Shoe Company 268 Summer Street, Boston
Shoehorn has the cowboy boot with spur logo and reads Regal Established 1880
Alexander's
Before it filed for bankruptcy in 1992, Alexander's also operated a department store chain that included 16 stores at its peak. All but one of the stores (at the time of the 1992 bankruptcy) were located in buildings owned by the company. Locations included a store that occupied the entire block between East 58th and 59th streets and Lexington and Third Avenues in Manhattan (now the location of 731 Lexington Avenue), a store in The Mall at the World Trade Center, and a store in Paramus, New Jersey that featured one of the largest murals in the world.
Hanover
Shoehorn reads:  Hanover / The Greatest Shoe Value on Earth
Hanover Shoe
in Hanover, Pennsylvania, was once one of the largest and most successful shoe companies in York County, Pennsylvania.
In 1966, the Hanover Shoe Company opened a manufacturing facility in Franklin, West Virginia, and contracted shoe orders for Bostonian and JC Penney and made shoes for their own Hanover brand. In 1978, C&J Clark purchased the Hanover Shoe Company and moved their North American headquarters to Hanover, Pennsylvania. The company moved all operations to West Virginia in 1996 because of cheaper taxes. The original Hanover Shoe building on Carlisle Street in Hanover, Pennsylvania, was converted to residential apartments in 2001, after sitting abandoned since the 1970s. The power plant is now a museum for the Hanover Fire Department.
Fayva
Plastic shoehorn is gold stamped with: Fayva / A different Kind of Shoe Store
Condition:
The metal shoehorns have small rust spots and overall fine scratches.  Sold
as-is, please view photos carefully.