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ARTIFACT: This is a small informational brochure for the Hamilton Hotel in Bermuda. It looks as though it is/was a large summer resort. The pamphlet tells briefly of the charms of Bermuda and then...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s lapel wing for the Jordan Marsh-Boston Traveler Junior Aviation League (JAL). Formed in 1929 by Boston-based department store Jordan-Marsh and the Boston Traveler...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1947-1948 Zippo lighter with a factory-engraved "SS" advertisement with a Deco design. The lighter is in chromed brass with a nickel insert. VINTAGE: Circa 1947-1948...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 milk can from Badger Farms Creameries of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Daniel Farms' first incarnation started in 1877 and was incorporated in 1927 by Kittery, Maine...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool turtle-shaped bottle opener from the 1930s advertising Grove Grocery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Grove Grocery was a luncheonette on Sagamore Avenue that also sold sundries...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful enameled Victorian era brooch with an image of the famous Tip-Top House on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Built as a hotel in 1853, the Tip-Top still stands today,...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful "Active Sammy" lithographed tin soldier toy from World War I. Sammy was the original action figure! His joints swivel, allowing him to get into many different poses, and...

ARTIFACT: This is a great fire mark from the Home Insurance Company of New Haven, Connecticut. The oval mark is in cast iron and shows a fireman pointing the way to the endangered property. Fire...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous circa 1900 firemen's muster celluloid badge advertising Portsburger Lager Beer by the Portsmouth Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Portsmouth Brewing...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old circa 19th century tin for Imperial Gunpowder. The tin has a wonderful reddish-orange paper label in an ornate design with a mournful hunting dog and sly fox gracing the...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1900s glass tonic bottle for White's Golden Tonic. The glass is in a handsome pale aqua hue and has its full label. White's Golden tonic was manufactured by Kimball...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1912 one dollar token from the Ingle System for George Parslow of Schenectady, New York. Ingle likely patented the token and perhaps the "trade system" by which they were...