Advertising Related Artifacts & Collectibles

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...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s pin for Snaider’s Syrups, which was incorporated in New York in 1933. The pin is in lithographed tin and advertised the company’s chocolate syrup. The pin is by L. J. Imber Company and reads I PLEDGE TO DRINK MILK WITH...

ARTIFACT: This is a 75th anniversary celluloid pin for Breyers Ice Cream, a company that began in1866 in Philadelphia. The Breyers leaf insignia is shown at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1941. SIZE: 1-3/4” height and 2-1/2” width...

ARTIFACT: This is an old bottle for Horlick's Original Malted Milk Lunch Tablets with the contents; however, the contents appear to have melted together (smells good, though!). At the time, the price on the label was 10 cents! J&W Horlicks was started...

SUBJECT: This is a circa 1930s H. P. Hood & Sons thirty years of service hat badge for a milk deliveryman. Hood began manufacturing dairy products in 1846 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The badge claims that the wearer is part of the “Quarter...

ARTIFACT: This is a late 1930s safe driver pin for Borden’s Milk by Whitehead & Hoag. Borden began producing dairy items in Connecticut as early as 1857. The pin is in 10 karat gold and shows a banner bearing three enameled stars beneath an eagle...

ARTIFACT: This is a great 1950's show glass advertising for Huey’s Drive-In Liquors. There are three marked-off levels in red paint: LADIES, MEN (a little higher up) and HOG, the closest line to the top. VINTAGE: Circa 1950's...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old Wade China advertising pourer for Beefeater Gin. The term “beefeater” applies to the guards of the Tower of London and may have been derived from the payment given the guards: different forms of meat. The pourer is shaped...

SUBJECT: This is a pin for Fox Head “400” beer, a beverage brewed by Fox Head Brewery since the late 19th century. The pin is orange and reads I DRINK THAT FOX HEAD “400” BEER BECAUSE IT’S BREWED WITH “WAUKESHA” WATER. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s. ...