Advertising Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a great set of miniature Blatz beer bottle salt and pepper shakers. Blatz was a Milwaukee brewing pioneer, being the first producer from the city to market their product nationally as well to have a bottling plant on the premises. Each...

ARTIFACT: This is an advertising pocket ruler from Torrey, Langlands & Jacques, dealers in ales, wines and liquors from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The reverse of the folding, foot-long ruler lists the company’s address and phone number, as well as its...

ARTIFACT: This is a pre-Prohibition (before 1920) advertising bottle opener from the Frank Jones Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910 Stag Horn cork screw with a sterling silver cap. VINTAGE: Circa 1910. SIZE: Approximately 5-5/16” in length and 5-7/16” in width. CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: Sterling silver, stag horn, nickel-plated brass...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960s sales award pin from Avon, an American cosmetics company. Avon got its start under the name California Perfume Company in 1886, and the company’s name changed to Avon in 1939. The pin is shaped like a door knocker, and...

ARTIFACT: 1890’s copper and lead coal stove advertising printing plate. VINTAGE: Circa 1890’s SIZE: Approximately 3” x 2 ¾” CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: Copper and lead. ATTACHMENT: Holes for anchoring to press. MARKINGS: None...

ARTIFACT: This is an early 20th century advertising cap for Church & Company’s Arm & Hammer Brand baking soda. The baking soda first hit the market in 1867 and its logo is one of the oldest in America: the arm of the god Vulcan wielding a hammer. The...

ARTIFACT: This is a unique sterling silver Luzier Aircraft pin from World War II. The pin is made up of three wings hanging one beneath the other by linked chains and a bar at bottom reading SERVICE-HONOR. VINTAGE: Circa World War II...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1910 advertisement pin for Peter Rabbit Children Stories on Colombia Grafonola Records. The pin is lithographed celluloid with a steel pin. VINTAGE: Circa 1910 SIZE: About 13/16" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION /...