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ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910s or 1920s Fire Cracker Mortar toy by Kilgore. With a painted cast iron barrel body, three stubby legs and a removable rubber ball top, the toy was designed as a receptacle for a small firecracker. The firecracker would be...

ARTIFACT: 1930's Italian lapel pin for Skeet Shooting Association of Venice. The center of the pin features a raised "fero da prorà" or "dol fin" (the prow-head of a gondola) and surrounding it, a blue enamel ring reads: "TIRO A VOLO VENEZIA" (Skeet...

ARTIFACT: Great 1930's Madison Square Garden Rodeo souvenir pin. The two piece pin features a nicely detailed pair of cowboy boots with spurs and the other pin is shield shaped, enameled, and reads: "MADISON SQUARE GARDEN" with a red strip that reads:...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful circa 1900 enameled sterling Mexican bullfighting stick pin. The round stick pin's center shows a raised image of a troubadour standing before a bull in enamel detail and above them, an enameled Mexican flag and a stadium scene behind...

ARTIFACT: Great 1920's - 1930's Villars, Switzerland Bobsled / Bobsleigh Club Member Badge and reads: VILLARS BOB CLUB in Art Deco lettering with black enameling. The pin has a blue and yellow striped enamel triangle at center and is made from silver...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1994 Champion Healer belt buckle. The buckle has an organic form with a scrolling, fernlike motif and background and reads JE at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1994. SIZE: 3-1/2" height and 4-9/16" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold-...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960's Buffalo, New York postal employee badge. The badge is in bronzed white metal and is numbered 4398. VINTAGE: Circa 1960's. SIZE: Approximately 1-11/16" in height and 1-1/2" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Bronzed...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1950's postal employee badge from Phoenix, Arizona. Badge reads: "POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - PHOENIX" and is numbered '157'. The reverse reads: "U.S. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY IF FOUND DROP IN MAIL BOX" VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s sterling silver employee lapel pin for twenty-five years of service with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), an entity created during the Civil War. The badge shows a small eagle at the top and has enameled...

ARTIFACT: This is an Italian Post and Telegraph Militia (Milizia Postelegrafonica) enlisted man shoulder board from the 1930's into World War II. Formed in 1925, this group had anti-fraud duties during peacetime, as well as its wartime functions such as...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s Federation Francaise de Natation (FFN) lapel pin with the letters FFN and a rooster in blue, white and red enamel. The FFN began in 1920 and is still in existence today. VINTAGE: Circa 1930's. SIZE: About 5/16" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s-1930s French newspaper reporter's badge from L'Intransigeant (Uncompromising). The newspaper first came of the presses in 1880 and continued in print until the Vichy takeover. During its four decades the newspaper's stance...