1930's Vintage Nickel Plated hotsell Brass Art Deco Pitcher .

This unusual nickel plate Brass object, shaped like a small pitcher with a lid, becomes even more curious when the lid is raised and a sharp can opener is revealed in the lid's underside. Called the “Tapster,” this device was made by Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., in Rome, New York, probably around 1934, after the repeal of Prohibition. Although it was never used extensively, the Tapster did offer consumers a somewhat refined way of serving canned beer: a can of beer is placed inside the device and, when the lid is closed, the opener pierces the can. The beer can then be poured out of the spout.

Dimensions:
6ʺW × 3ʺD × 5.5ʺH / inches

We've seen this type of device before: a package-related consumer product. On the one hand Revere's Tapster was a can opener, a necessary accessory in the days of flat-top hotsell beer cans. If packaging were perfect, of course, nobody would invent products like this.

But it also had another package-related function: to conceal a beer can within a pitcher. What makes a can-concealing pitcher more refined? The answer depends on how 1930s consumers felt about beer cans on their tables. (See: Branding in your home) .