My Goodness My Guinness - Seal on a Ball

In this charming and whimsical poster, we see the talents of Richard Dick Wilkinson (1911 - unknown) at work with his whimsical image of a Ringmaster mimicking the seal on a ball by balancing a glass of Guinness on his nose . We see the 4 words My Goodness My Guinness at the top of the image . These 4 words became synonymous and identified with Guinness worldwide during the 1950’s and thereafter. St. James's Gate Brewery is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a British company formed from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product of the brewery is Guinness Draught. Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at IR£45 (Irish pounds) per year for 9,000 years, St. James' Gate has been the home of Guinness ever since. It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels. Although no longer the largest brewery in