Advertising Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a great old Canada Dry advertisement brass belt buckle. The buckle shows a map of Canada and the northern United States and a beaver and reads "CANADA DRY" PALE GINER ALE TRADEMARK REGISTERED J.J. MCLAUGHLIN LIMITED...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1970s Levi Strauss & Company tray with an inlay of wood and brass. The tray was given as an award for reaching $2 billion in sales for the San Francisco company that invented the dungarees. VINTAGE: Circa 1970's...

ARTIFACT: This is a Derby Underwear fifteen years of service pin in 10 karat gold by Balfour. The pin has a great design: a pair of boxer shorts sticking out of a derby hat gives the overall impression of a mushroom. There are two ruby chips in the derby...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 ice pick from the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Ice & Coal Company. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 9-3/8" length and 7/8" diameter (handle). CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Wood, steel. MARKINGS: Very hard to...

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...