Tools, Knives, Clothing etc. Advertising Artifacts

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 Brothers & Company of Enosburg Falls, Vermont and was...

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, and axe and reads: "BALTIMORE JUNIOR FIRE DEPT. ORGANIZED...

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 STOP" with an arrow pointing towards the viewer's left...

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 Latvia in a couple of decades' time. The pin is an eagle...

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 handle and dates from the 1890s. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s...

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 / MATERIALS: Steel. ATTACHMENT: Hole. ITEM NOTES: This is...

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 workers of all trades. The sign shows two men modeling...

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 founder, John F. Byers, also invented an oatmeal grinder, the...

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 1-15/15" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Painted brass...

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 impression of a mushroom. There are three ruby chips in the...

ARTIFACT: This is an old Leominster, Massachusetts "Hudson Parer Company" cast iron apple peeler patented in 188The peeler has a crank handle that manipulates two gears attached to a three-pronged spindle onto which the apple goes. Another gear turns a...

ARTIFACT: This is a five years of service pin for McCulloch Motors, makers of chainsaws and aircraft engines. The pin is in 10 karat gold enameled in red and blue with a ruby chip and shows two ducks in flight. VINTAGE: Circa late 1940s. SIZE: 5/8"...