Tools, Knives, Clothing etc. Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful "Active Sammy" lithographed tin soldier toy from World War I. Sammy was the original action figure! His joints swivel, allowing him to get into many different poses, and...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old circa 19th century tin for Imperial Gunpowder. The tin has a wonderful reddish-orange paper label in an ornate design with a mournful hunting dog and sly fox gracing the...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1900s glass tonic bottle for White's Golden Tonic. The glass is in a handsome pale aqua hue and has its full label. White's Golden tonic was manufactured by Kimball...

ARTIFACT: Great 1920's Baltimore Junior fire department celluloid promotional pin given out by the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. The center of the pin features a fireman's helmet, ladder, hook,...

ARTIFACT: Cool vintage 1970's Ð 1980's Peter Pan Bus Lines bus stop sign. This smaller size sign is painted aluminum in the Peter Pan colors, green, white, and black. The sign reads: "PETER PAN BUS...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1914 advertising pin for Prowodnik Tires of Riga. Riga was part of Russia at the time, about to be occupied by Germany, and destined to be the capital of an independent...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old apple peeler by Pennsylvania Hardware Company. The Penn Hardware Company was established in 1877 in Reading, Pennsylvania. The peeler is in cast iron with a wooden crank...

ARTIFACT: This is an old shoe horn from Fulis Bros., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoe store. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 4-1/16" in length and 1-9/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a great early tin lithograph advertising sign for Lee Union-Alls circa 191The Union-Alls design combined a jacket and dungarees in one piece of clothing to provide full coverage for...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1920s advertising paperweight for Byers Machinery of Ravenna, Ohio. The paperweight advertises the company's patented "Bear Cat" crane (excavator). The company...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1940 brass advertising key chain for Goodrich Tires. It is in the shape of a 1940 Massachusetts license plate. VINTAGE: Circa 1940. SIZE: Approximately 3/4" in height and...

ARTIFACT: This is a Derby Underwear twenty 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...