Made by Meek Company in Coshocton, Ohio. Large Framed O.F.C Stagg Distillery Whiskey Sign Tin Lithograph by Meek Company. Original Frame measures 39.50"x52." Subject measures 23.50"x35.50".Don asked me to research this piece many years ago. Here is what I provided to him.....Frankfort, Kentucky Self Framed Tin-Lithograph Sign in Original Wooden Frame. The colors on this sign are spectacular as is the original condition. The frame shows some smoke/soot marks which could be cleaned if desired. This Pre-Prohibition sign was manufactured by The Meek Co. Coshocton, Ohio prior to 1904 as all known signs with this image bear marking of George T. Stagg on fold wooden border starting in 1904. This remarkable sign was found in the Timothy McKune Building at the northeast corner of Middle and Main Streets in Chelsea, Michigan. This building was formerly a Saloon under the proprietorship of Frank Rarringer and/or Jacob Zang. The August 1899 Saanborn Fire Insurance Map verifies this saloons existence, at this location, where the sign was found.Company History:Perhaps the most remarkable man to enter the whiskey industry post Civil War was Colonel Edmund Hayes Taylor, Jr. born in Columbia, Kentucky in 1832. He was the Grand Nephew of General Zachary Taylor. Col. Taylor was a man of education and cultivation and also had the Taylor grit and determination. He established the O.F.C. (Old Fire Copper) Distillery in 1869-1870. The O.F.C. Distillery was purchased by George Stagg in 1878 and re-named in 1904 The George T. Stagg Distillery. In 1886, Stagg installed steam heating in the storage warehouses, the FIRST CLIMATE CONTROLLED SYSTEM FOR AGING WHISKEY IN THE NATION!!! The distillery was bought by Schenley in the 1930's. It was sold, in 1992, and re-named Buffalo Trace Distillery, because it was built on an ancient Buffalo Crossing.