Advertising Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is an old circa 1930s advertising display for Gillette brand razor blades. Gillette is a Boston, Massachusetts company that has been producing men's personal care products since 190The case is in wood, steel and glass, and would have been...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s German advertising stick pin for Sportberger Boats. The pin has a great graphic of a person rowing in a kayak tipped at a diagonal. VINTAGE: Circa 193os. SIZE: Approximately 2-3/16" in height and 1/2" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1930s advertising fan for Kool brand cigarettes featuring Willie the Kool Penguin. The fan also promotes the Tommy Dorsey Radio show. Tommy and his famous brother Jimmy had a band together but in 1935 Tommy went solo. The...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful, circa 1900 DuPont Explosives, Hercules Powder, advertising letter opener in nickeled steel with aluminum slab grips by S.D. Childs Co. in Chicago. The aluminum grips feature images of an explosive, spool of wire/cord, and box that...

ARTIFACT: 1890's Boston, Massachusetts porcelain top bottle H. E. Scanlan & Co. This pre-Prohibition bottle was most likely used for Beer. The blob top bottle features a 'Hutter Type' porcelain topper with a Lightening style steel closure. The...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1900 Dover, New Hampshire advertising/promotional bookmark from E.J. Ackroyd Footwear on Washington Street. The bookmark is heart shaped, tin-stamped with floral details, a bow, and gold tassel reading: "E. J. ACKROYD,...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful circa 1912 100th anniversary advertising paperweight for the Waterbury Button Company of Waterbury, Connecticut. The company's website boasts that at the meeting between Generals Grant and Lee at Appomattox Courthouse,...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1910s Phillips' Milk of Magnesia advertising letter opener with a magnifier at one end. Charles Henry Philiips, a British native who moved to Stamford, Connecticut, produced his famous elixir starting in 188The opener is...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1900 pocket compass advertising Leominster Hardware Company of Leominster, Massachusetts. The store advertised having "Everything is Sporting Goods: Guns Ammunition Fishing Tackle Base Ball and Football Supplies"...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1910's - 1920's "B & Co. Inc." (possible medical supply company) lapel/service pin. At the center of the pin, a red enameled shield features a caduceus, two scrolls adorn each side of the shield with some remaining white enamel...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful, iconic 1900's – 1910's Buster Brown Shoes celluloid pin with Bust & Tige by Whitehead & Hoag with original paper backing that reads: "THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. BUTTONS, BADGES, NOVELTIES, AND SIGNS NEWARK, N.J...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910 advertising watch fob for H and M Paints. The fob is in oval and shows a man painting in relief. VINTAGE: Circa 1910. SIZE: Approximately 1-7/8" in height and 1-3/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION /...