Advertising Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is an 1893 Home Insurance Co. of New York calendar given out by John Sise Insurance of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (his stamp can be seen beneath the calendar pages). The calendar is affixed to cardboard with a printed color scene and has a...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool old advertising shopping handle from Pryor-Davis Co. Hardware & Paints of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The store's address of 36 Market Street is printed on the wooden dowel portion. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately...

ARTIFACT: This is an old shoe horn from Oren Bragdon & Son, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoe store. The store's address is stamped on the horn: 46 Market St. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 4" in length and 1-9/16" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is an old shoe horn from C. F. Duncan & Co., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoe store. The company's address is stamped on the horn: 9 Market St. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 4-3/8" in length and 1-5/8" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1890s advertising shoe buttoner from C. F. Duncan & Co., a shoe store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The company's address is listed on the reverse: 9 Market St. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s. SIZE: Approximately 5-3/16" length and...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1900 tea tin for Chase & Sanborn Green Label orange and orange pekoe tea. Chase & Sanborn's of Boston, Massachusetts, and later also Chicago, began selling coffee and tea in 186The tin is in a half pound size and still...

SUBJECT: This is a Topsfield, Massachusetts Country Club lunch plate with a green rim decoration and TCC logo on white. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: About 8-3/16" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: China. ATTACHMENT: None...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s key fob from the famous Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada. The combined hotel/casino opened in the summer of 1946, and is one of the oldest establishments of its kind in Las Vegas, as well as the largest...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Ward’s Bread promotional “Scoop Ward News of Youth” reporter badge. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 1-5/8” in height and 1-1/2” in width. CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: Plated brass, painted lettering...

ARTIFACT: This is a late 1920s serving bowl from the Kaiser-Hof restaurant. The bowl is in restaurant-ware china by Shenango China of Pennsylvania VINTAGE: Circa late 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 2-3/4” in height and 8-1/2” in diameter (at...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous 1920s-1930s open sign for Boston’s Union Oyster House, the city’s oldest restaurant (established 1826), and the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the United States. Union House is now designated a National Historic...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1900's Hotel Nizza Wiesbaden room key and fob for room number twenty-four. Hotel Nizza was located at 28 Frankfurter, Strasse and faced the Augusta Victoria Bath in Wiesbaden City. The luxury hotel had sixty rooms and nearly every...