This delightful drinks parade of bottles of scotch, bourbon, rye and gin advertised room service in a hotel whose location is unknown.

The artist, also unknown, has given each of the four characters distinctive personalities.

There’s the cheery Scot wearing a bonnet as he carries his tray of Scotch, the distinguished Southern gentleman with bourbon, the sophisticated man-about-town holding supplies of rye and the modern chap in a pork pie hat bringing up the rear with gin.

Russian vodka didn’t reach the American market until the 1970s and although it was produced domestically, it only began to reach a wider audience in the late 1940s.

 Perhaps this is why there’s no walking bottle of vodka in this illustration, which we think is from the late 1930s when the celebratory air of post-Prohibition America was in full swing.

This was a table-topper, perhaps left in the bar of the hotel to advertise room service. Therefore, there is no menu attached to it.