Tools, Knives, Clothing etc. Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Great, early Avon lipstick in painted brass container. The lipstick depicts a 1930's deco design and still has a little remaining 'Pagoda Red' lipstick inside! The bottom of the lipstick container reads: "AVON PRODUCTS INC...

ARTIFACT: Vintage Hargrave 6" wood clamp, with wooden handles and steel bars. "HARGRAVE THE CINCINNATI TOOL COMPANY U.S.A." and the numbers "706" are stamped into either side of the clamp. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: Great vintage 1920's Air-Float Lily of the Valley Talcum Powder Tin by the Talcum Puff Company in New York. The brightly colored tin, in red, yellow, and green reads: "AIR-FLOAT TRADEMARK LILY OF THE VALLEY" and beneath are lily...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful vintage 1920's – 1930's McNess Humpty Dumpty Baby Powder Tin. The tin displays vibrant colors and tells the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. The front of the tin displays Humpty sitting atop a brick wall, beneath him reads: "McNESS...

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: 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"...