Advertising Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1910s or 1920s employee badge for Rexall, a Boston, Massachusetts-based chain of independently owned drugstores that began in 190The company's motto reflects just how prolific the chain eventually became: THE BEST DRUG...

ARTIFACT: This is a set of circa 1920s or 1930s Remington Peters shotgun shell buttons for a blazer: two large and four small. The large buttons are made from 12 gauge shotgun shells and the small ones are made from .410 shells. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1900 apothecary bottle for Gould's White Clover Cream with the original contents still inside! The bottle has a double label, each one in very good condition. Gould's was a company in Portland, Maine that made this...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910s clothing store advertising sign for the "high class" W. O. Horn & Brother brand of neckwear. W. O. Horn & Brother was a New York clothier. This handsome sign is in brass, and has two original paper labels upon the reverse,...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice circa 1900 advertising lapel pin for Flexible Flyer sleds. The Flexible Flyer was patented in 188The pin is by Robbins Company of Attleboro, Massachusetts. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 1/2" in height and 1" in width...

ARTIFACT: Rare circa 1900 Portsmouth, New Hampshire "Blob Top" bottle of bottler J. Sacco, Market Street. The center of the bottle reads: "J. SACCO 110 MARKET ST. PORTSMOUTH, N. H." above it reads: "REGISTERED" and the base of the bottle reads: "THIS...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool circa 1920s Capitol District Seltzer Company bottle from Albany, New York. The bottle has a large Capitol dome design on the front and a siphon marked with the company name. The bottle is heavy, and was made to hold 26 ounces of...

ARTIFACT: This is an advertising pencil for White House Coffee of Boston from the early twentieth century. The pencil slides out of the side of the gold-plated brass case. VINTAGE: Circa early 1900s - 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 3/8" in width and 3" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910 Dr. Swett's Root Beer bottle. Dr. Swett' owned pharmacies in both Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York, and sold his root beer there as a fountain drink and in other formats to other vendors. The bottle is in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1896 celluloid advertising pin for the American Pepsin Gum Company. The pin pre-dates the Spanish-American War, and features the USS Concord, part of the nation's up-and-coming "White Squadron". Commissioned February 14, 1891,...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old circa 1900 seltzer bottle from A. (Andrew) O. Caswell, Bottler, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The bottle is glass with a frosted Caswell insignia covering one side, and is topped by a metal pump-style siphon with clear straw...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1947 Coca-Cola bottle from Portland, Maine in a wonderful shade of pale green glass. The front of the bottle reads COCA-COLA TRADE-MARK REGISTERED MIN. CONTENTS 6 FL. OZS. and the back shows its patent number and the production date...